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Ultimate ironyUltimate ironyPosted Feb 16, 2009 22:38 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)In reply to: Ultimate irony by tgall Parent article: Apple: why iPhone jailbreaking should not be allowed
What does the free SDK have to do with all this? Absolutely nothing:
"Apple's iPhone, now the best-selling cellular phone in the U.S., has been designed with restrictions that prevent owners from running applications obtained from sources other than Apple's own iTunes App Store."
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Ultimate irony Posted Feb 17, 2009 6:01 UTC (Tue) by tgall (subscriber, #217) [Link]
If you're developing code or passing source around, one uses the SDK to put those apps onto your own iPhone/iPod Touch, no app store required.
Ultimate irony Posted Feb 17, 2009 10:52 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
<sarcasm>Really? SDK is used for software development. You don't say.</sarcasm>
So, a regular iPhone owner is going to use the SDK to get an application running on it? Please!
The point is that Apple are worse than Microsoft. They'll use any monopolistic practice in the book to exclude others from interoperating without paying rent (in this case the ugly DMCA - possibly the ugliest of all private monopolies). And all that while using open source software for the basis of all this. Pathetic.
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