Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot [LWN.net]

Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot

Posted Mar 30, 2013 1:45 UTC (Sat) by hummassa (guest, #307)
In reply to: Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot by mjg59
Parent article: Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot

I'll let you in a little secret, Garrett: atv3 was not jailbroken because there are better, more open, options in the market, and because it is a very small market. If the iPhone sold in its segments as little as the ATv, people would just buy Android too.

When geohot first jailbroke the iPhone, he had to physically open the case. One of my atv1 had to be cracked open, too. But, having other options to run Xbmc+Netflix/Hulu, why in the world would one buy an Apple TV? Unless, of course, you want to pay two dollars per tv episode -- but I can't put the subtitles I want on it...

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Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot

Posted Mar 30, 2013 1:56 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (1 responses)

"atv3 was not jailbroken because there are better, more open, options in the market"

That would be a perfectly reasonable explanation, other than the number of people willing to pay significantly more money for an atv2 than a new atv3 costs.

Garrett: Secure Boot and Restricted Boot

Posted Mar 30, 2013 11:42 UTC (Sat) by hummassa (guest, #307) [Link]

This is the minority like me: I *did* pass on the other options b/c I do have a reasonably-sized collection of thingies on iTMS... :-(

And I do think iTunesU is nice. Apple is *so* evil that they could hook me, even if I know it.