Apple Stores Fight Back: JailBreakMe.com Blocked!

[sushi]

Glad to see Apple do this.

why is he soooo against it? I'd love to find out

There are a variety of reasons.

One of which is to insure a good consistent user experience. Personally, that's one reason that I like Apple products like the iPhone.

I did it to 8 devices at my local Apple Store as a protest against all the silly lil fanboiz out there.

Personally I think its hilarious

Someday may you own a store where customers mess up your products on a daily basis. Of course based upon the above, you won't mind and will enjoy the hilariousness of their actions.

The only people you're really ***** are the customers that visit that store after you leave.

Agree.

 

[mustnotsleep]

why are the customers annoyed because there is a cydia app in the background? why dont you think before you speak.

 

[aristobrat]

why are the customers annoyed because there is a cydia app in the background? why dont you think before you speak.

Two things. Most people messing up the phones hardly stop with just installing Cydia. They'll go out of their way to use Cydia to really reconfigure the device to try and make it unusable. Secondly, devices with Cydia have to be restored, so it still takes away from usable demo units and free employees, both of which f the customers there.

 

[Vbp6us]

Can't you just tether one of their iPhones to your jailbroken iPhone via MyWi? That would be even better.

That is definitely better lol.

 

[hackthatphone]

Undoing the work of inconsiderate jackasses is not what they're paid to do. And apparently it's too hard for some of you to understand that in order to "hit a restore button in iTunes", they have to remove those display phones from the floor, meaning that there are less phones for customers to play with.

Try thinking outside of yourselves for once.

They are paid to do whatever their boss says to do. Big deal.

I have spent years working in customer service jobs and had to perform some of the must disgusting tasks to "clean up" after a customer's mess. And let me tell you something it was far more reprehensible than clicking a button on a computer. The things these people do will never end, they are a part of doing business. People don't stop shopping in a store and purchasing things when vomit and urine was in their way. They sure won't be stopped by some display models not performing correctly.

Cry me a river! Don't like your difficult tech job? Quit! Must be real grueling work standing next to Apple products all day surrounded by customers with money who aren't the usual dirt bags found in other retail settings.

There are far more important causes to rally around in this world, and none of them have to do with technology products and some inconvenience felt by a store and their lack of preparedness or some customer will extra money to spend not being able to touch a precious phone in person so they can decide if they want to purchase it or not. This analogy just isn't working for me in expressing the outrage of those who don't like jailbreaking in stores.

The novelty of doing this will wear off soon enough when 4.1 comes out.

 

[ogee]

I did it to 8 devices at my local Apple Store as a protest against all the silly lil fanboiz out there.

Personally I think its hilarious

At my local store an employee had to work almost 6 hours overtime to restore all the iphone, ipads and ipod touches that had been jailbroken by an ar… like you.

It is not funny, its criminal.

 

[chakraj]

Shoot, thats creating more jobs than Obama's stimulus

 

[JordanZimm]

At my local store an employee had to work almost 6 hours overtime to restore all the iphone, ipads and ipod touches that had been jailbroken by an ar… like you.

It is not funny, its criminal.

somebody give me the address of the nearest apple store, ive needed a job ^.^ I should use mywi, **** up a few phones, and get paid to fix them up again XD

 

[kas23]

At my local store an employee had to work almost 6 hours overtime to restore all the iphone, ipads and ipod touches that had been jailbroken by an ar… like you.

It is not funny, its criminal.

So he got paid overtime. How criminal.

 

[ItsJustafnPhone]

can we do it via a proxy now? im really in the mood to annoy everybody who gets annoyed over this. f apple. f apple employees. f steve jobs. they have enough of my money that i dont care even a little about their welfare. also good luck trying to prove vandalism, you would pay thousands of dollars in court costs to mitigate 30 minutes in an employee's wasted time...so $10? that is, if you could even prove vandalism for something that is so easy to fix and causes no long-term damage.

If anyone ever wondered what the minset of a troll = this

Get back to masturbating to 4chan in you parent's basement

 

[Southern Dad]

When I was younger we pulled much worse pranks than simply Jailbreaking a few phones. It is a prank people. Get over it. Steve Jobs used to fly a pirate flag outside his office building. I'll bet when Steve first heard about it he snickered a second or two. Bill Gates probably fell out of his chair laughing.

I was at the Mall of Georgia this weekend the Apple employ yes weren't even restoring the iPhones and iPads that had been Jailbroken.

 

[chocboy]

This is kind of the first actual recognizing of jailbreaking, though, is it not? I mean, if you search "jailbreak" on the apple site, not one reference comes up at all. Apple has never recognized that you can do it EVER; this is saying
"OK, haha, fun's over, now you can't do it".


Would it be a hardcore violation to block certain anti-Apple sites on all their devices? I mean, yeah, people would go ballistic, but there'd be no more on device jailbreaking.....

 

[sirtekalot]

Most of the Apple Store employees I know jailbreak their phones. And the ones I asked said they thought it was funny. I did it and showed one of them, they just laughed.

 

[Smith288]

You ever want to give a cop the finger because he pulled you over doing 61 in a 55? Sorta along the same lines.

Why would you give the finger to a cop when it was your own idiotic fault? Blame everyone else but me society this child lives in... Geez. Grow the eff up.

 

[outphase]

This is kind of the first actual recognizing of jailbreaking, though, is it not? I mean, if you search "jailbreak" on the apple site, not one reference comes up at all. Apple has never recognized that you can do it EVER; this is saying
"OK, haha, fun's over, now you can't do it".


Would it be a hardcore violation to block certain anti-Apple sites on all their devices? I mean, yeah, people would go ballistic, but there'd be no more on device jailbreaking.....

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3743

Not one reference huh?

 

[jmor]

Some of you guys are really so mature ...

 

[mustnotsleep]

Why would you give the finger to a cop when it was your own idiotic fault? Blame everyone else but me society this child lives in... Geez. Grow the eff up.

by the way you can flip off a cop whenever you want (maybe not if you are poor and black). its called free speech, look it up.

 

[Rajani Isa]

Can't you turn wifi off then just do it over the 3G network? I'm assuming it's set in their wireless routers to reroute the address, that's the easiest way to block it on them all at once.
Someone try it.

Pretty sure that the ones at the Apple stores, at least (and probably AT&T) are set up so you cannot shut off WiFi - the demo version of iOS locks out various settings/apps, so you cannot shut off wifi.

a bit OT maybe, but is there a document or website somewhere that gives Steve Jobs' comments on jailbreaking?..

why is he soooo against it? I'd love to find out

Officially : This is in order to insure customer experiences are 100% satisfactory by making sure any apps, etc, use well documented features to prevent slowness and crashing.

They could always just take their jailbroken iPhone or Android phone and use it as a mobile hotspot to access the site.

That being said, I think it should be considered very shameful and possibly criminal.

This would only work if Apple left "Ask to join new networks" or whatever the setting is called to "on".

2: AT&T could scan for JB/UL iPhones on their network and ban them permanently by IMEI, just like how Microsoft bans modded xBoxes off of XBL.

Sadly, this would probably happen sooner than a banned list for stolen phones.

So he got paid overtime. How criminal.

So a guy down the street, to comply with local law, had to buy paint for his fence. How criminal... oh right, it was because of some vandals putting graffiti on his fence.

At the very least, if the person(s) are found that did that, Apple could sue for the money they were force to pay that guy for overtime, as those wages would be considered monetary damages.

And the guy himself could probably sue, especially if something like missing his kid's first steps due to that overtime, etc.

by the way you can flip off a cop whenever you want (maybe not if you are poor and black). its called free speech, look it up.

Various locales also have disrespecting an officer on duty as a crime. Free speech does have it's limits.

Of course, each locale may or may have limits that must be surpassed to trigger that law, so your mileage may vary. In the end, don't piss off people that can cause you extra fines

 

[mustnotsleep]

Various locales also have disrespecting an officer on duty as a crime. Free speech does have it's limits.

Of course, each locale may or may have limits that must be surpassed to trigger that law, so your mileage may vary. In the end, don't piss off people that can cause you extra fines

i know there are limits to the first amendment, but offensive speech is definitely covered. if you have a good lawyer i highly doubt any locality would be able to enforce those disrespect laws. they are very clearly unconstitutional.

 

[moussekateer]

i know there are limits to the first amendment, but offensive speech is definitely covered. if you have a good lawyer i highly doubt any locality would be able to enforce those disrespect laws. they are very clearly unconstitutional.

It depends how far you go. Be offensive enough and it can be construed as a threat which you can be arrested for over here in the UK.

 

[mustnotsleep]

It depends how far you go. Be offensive enough and it can be construed as a threat which you can be arrested for over here in the UK.

im talking about the US legal system. UK is totally different.

 

[moussekateer]

im talking about the US legal system. UK is totally different.

Point taken, I'll butt out

 

[Rajani Isa]

im talking about the US legal system. UK is totally different.

Eh, lots of different fine points, but they do share something of a common starting point.

Really, for any given area (city/county/state) you need to check up on the various laws (last I saw, there was still an old law against eating ice cream on Sundays...) in your area. But no matter what, it's not a good idea to flip off police officers.

 

[Jayman34187]

Agreed. No one who actually has to work for a living could find this remotely funny.

When I called Apple complaining about 4.0 and said I wanted 3.1.3 back, the Apple Employee just laughed (in a smart ass way) and said sorry you can't get it.... So bassically I'm a customer and not happy with my phone now and want it the way it was when I bought it, I believed Apple when they said 4.0 was newer and better..

Pay backs are a bitch

 

[ender21]

Difficult task or not, it's still disrespectful.

You paid for your phone, do whatever the hell you want with it. But have some common courtesy for the store's property.

Agreed it's disrespectful and tantamount to vandalism, but come on, would any J6P really know the device was jailbroken because a Cydia icon was sitting on one of 6 pages of demo icons? It's not like jailbreaking by itself makes a phone, touch or pad look any different. One would have to spend the time to download and configure more than a couple of jb apps for it to be obvious.

That said, it's all good that they blocked it. The devices belong to them.