Apple’s reasons for locking down the iPhone!?
In a post on 24th November 2007 I was questioning Apple’s decision, to lock down the iPhone and iPod Touch, along with the general company’s policy to lock down or intervene into everything possible (iPhone, MacOSX, AppleTV, iTunes, etc).
Now it seems that some Apple addicts, gave me a straight answer. The main reason for doing this is: Because hacking things, leads into breaking them and making them not functional. Apple wants it’s products to Just Work. Okay I can buy that. It sounds fairly clear! How many chances do you have to break an iPhone that is not jail-broked? Not much! However, having an iPod Touch for two months now, I didn’t experienced serious problems. So I can’t accept that as the sole reason.
It’s true that my Playstation 2 never had issues. Maybe because I didn’t hack it! Hell yes! But wait, with my PS2 I did two things mainly… Oh no! Not mainly, just two things: Play and watch DVD’s. That’s what the PS2 was made for after all! But a computer is kinda different. You need to do a hundred of different things! Why keep locking people out? Now, the iPhone, could be (actually it is due to the mac community) a great next-generation smart phone! The iPod Touch, jail-broken turns out to be a small computer at all effects! File sharing, Terminal window, Samba or httpd server, it can run, ruby, python, php or perl applications for Christ’s sake!!! Why keep this jewel locked??? Just to be sure that the PHP application that you will run on it, is not buggy as hell? No! I can’t accept that!
Having a UNIX background the above reason looks silly. But I don’t think that the average user keeps it’s iPhone unlocked. I’d like to have a statistic about the iPhone: How many of the sold iPhones are jail-broken?. If the statistics show above 80% than Apple would have to rethink it’s strategy. One last thing, I don’t remember of anyone that lost profit in the long when going OPEN.
Cheers!
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