Jailbreaking is nice since it enables you to do things apple won't let you do for no apparent reason (video capture anyone ?). But as an iPhone developer i am frustrated to see my apps pirated at will. If the jailbreaking community was about non apple approved apps all would be fine. But it isn't. I am seeing 95+ % piracy rate in one of my apps and frankly if this doesn't end soon i might stop developing for the platform altogether.

Just like CD/DVD copy protection and Windows activation.

IT DOESN'T WORK. NONE OF IT.

WHY do these companies bother spending so much money on protections that always get cracked, eventually.

Now if they were sensible they'd jump on the open source bandwagon and start something like www.myopenrouter.com except it would be www.myopeniphone.com and they'd let you do whatever you liked.

And they'd probably get higher sales beacuse of it.

What's so bad about letting the customer have what they want? Did Apple sell their soul to the phone company? (obviously they did)

By time the make an unbreakable product, open source products will be good and smother them. They best get with the program and give people what they want, or they will get left behind.

...and its not jailbroken. Music, Videos, porn, etc. are fine - no google or verizon. I have all the apps I need. I don't like the fact that its an aPPLE product, as most owners of such are holier than thou wank*rs, but Steve did a good job with the iphone.

how people continue to buy a product that they cant do wherever they want with
droid looks as good and you can put any song or any apps or movies without asking google or verizon first

It is inevitable that Apple will try to lock down the phones they sell.

It is inevitable that people will want to break the lock down.

unlocked too...