Was There Justifications For iPhone Application Hacking?
Many users of the iPhone have gone the route of hacking the phone, to enable them to download any iPhone application they really want, whether it’s authorized by Apple and available at their store or not. Apple is insisting that the Copyright Office must declare this sort of iPhone hacking illegal, and that sounds like a logical, pretty straightforward conclusion. But certainly the users who do the hacking don’t see it that way at all. They tend to blame Apple’s own monopolistic tendencies for this phenomenon, and they view the company’s resolve to make it illegal simply as evidence that they’re right.
But there are other rationales for iPhone hacks as well, or for what is known as “jailbreaking.” The writer of the www.hackthatphone.com blog believes that Apple is not that interested in what its phone users want, and that the company doesn’t even care if the programs they want to use are safe on their phones or not. According to this writer, Apple wants to keep every iPhone app under its thumb to preserve its own business model, and for no other reason. Yet the writer claims to have seen even Apple employees using hacked iPhones because they don’t want to be so restricted.
Jay Freeman runs www.cydia.com, a store where people can download many an iPhone application either rejected by Apple or developed independently. He and other developers who place programs there believe that Apple is being arbitrary in its decisions of what applications to accept or reject for the App Store. Many of them view the current situation as analogous, for example, to Microsoft dictating which programs people are allowed to use with its operating system. This is simply regarded as a monopolistic no-no.
Another factor that especially feeds the impulse to do an iPhone hack is the apparent cosy relationship between Apple and its American carrier, AT&T. On a few occasions, Apple seems to have rejected a submitted iPhone application because it would somehow provide a shortcut that could curtail AT&T’s profit-taking from iPhone users. The rejection of Google Voice is seen as a prime example. Hackers believe that if Apple really does care more for the profits of its carrier than the service it gives to its own customers, then this as much as anything justifies all the alterations made to the iPhone thus far, and whatever changes the hackers continue to make in the future.
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