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Jailbreaking.... What's the big deal?

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apple approved an app that lets you control a torrent site - what does that say? we all assume torrent folks are pirates. though i'm not sure why you'd need to torrent anything for the ios devices since every app is small.

The real reason is there are very dangerous apps, backgrounder, multiflow, sbsettings,spirit2pwn, that can roach your ios - especially when you try to install ios 3 apps to ios 4 phones etc. there are not many checks in place.

However say you want to ichatr - free app - you can't buy that anywhere - it was free on the app store - you can't get it anywhere else but repo's other than the default ones - well is that a crime? it was free until apple pulled the plug on it - it still is free - as in not for sale anywhere - jailbreaking was made legal to let you run apps that are not approved by apple's somewhat insane approval process.

If you buy a gun it comes with a warning that you could kill someone - does that mean you will? use your judgement man. if there are 3 apps that are questionable - research them - if they do not meet your legal and moral judgements - do not install them - but i guarantee you not everything on those repo's are pirated. heck there's a ton of ringtones on the default repo's on cydia - are those legal? in all countries?

If the iphone dev team/saurik did not want you to add a repo - they would make it so.
 
There's a difference between jailbreaking and adding a repo to pirate apps.

You can jailbreak and get apps that weren't approved (MyWi, GV Mobile).

There was a conversation on the iPhone Dev Team's twitter about putting stops to letting them install those pirated apps, which they are all against.

And yes, there is the argument that it allows people to try apps, but most people use that repo to get apps instead of paying for them.
 
I agree that apple store needs to do the 24-48 hour try before you buy - but the problem there is 90% of the apps are garbage and the cash flow would be lost. Not going to happen is it?

I've spent $25 on childrens apps which all sucked - oddly enough there was a ton of websites that praised them and great feedback - which after more discovery the app dev's paid off the sites to review them positive and also paid off folks to write good reviews.

I just wanted a good app to teach - i found one - i will say i tried it and i bought it - because at $1.99 it was fantastic and got 100+ hours of usage and taught phonics/addition/subtraction/letters/numbers/counting etc - i went through about 20 different apps. I wish i could have returned the $25 of paid apps and given that cash to the one good app writer
 
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