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jared_kipe

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Dec 8, 2003
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Cars support drunk driving. Therefore they should be banned. Jailbreaking, just like a car, is a vehicle designed to make life easier for people in various ways. What individual people CHOOSE to do with they vehicles is irrelevent and does not reflect on the vehicle's INTENDED purpose.

And no, I am in no ways condoning drunk driving. Like it or not, people have free will, and no matter how hard you try, some people will make absolutley STUPID decisions. But this does not define an entire community.

Um driving intoxicated is illegal, jailbreaking is not. What is "banned" is not the cars, its the alcohol.... so ... by your own logic we should make jailbreaking illegal!

The difference, you are hoping people gloss over, is that jailbreaking is NOT like a car in that the car can ALREADY be used to drive drunk, the iPhone cannot be used out of the box for people to steal apps.
 

jared_kipe

macrumors 68030
Dec 8, 2003
2,967
1
Seattle
The post you quoted was not part of this thread. You should acquaint yourself with this article:

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/03/the-myth-of-iphone-app-piracy/

People throw around the idea that if someone "wouldn't purchase an app anyway" then they don't hurt the developers or paying customers.

Well maybe they wouldn't, but if they really really wanted to use the app they would. And what gives them the right to use and benefit from something other people willingly pay for?

At BEST: This is kinda akin to people driving like ******s, you know the one who get into a turning lane to pass you for no real reason. It doesn't really hurt you, but I bet it makes you mad.
 
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