Before your horse gets too high to climb off I'll point out that just because you had the cartridge does not give you the right to download an app. Morally fine I agree, but legally no.
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iBooks 1.2.1 Detects Some Jailbreaks, Disables iBookstore Purchases in Response
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Before your horse gets too high to climb off I'll point out that just because you had the cartridge does not give you the right to download an app. Morally fine I agree, but legally no.
In some countries that would be legally fine.
The UK has one of the worst sets of copyright laws in the world.
I agree UK needs to sort things out, but in the US I believe this would be illegal too (I think I remember reading about an MP3 case along similar lines- it escapes me now).
"less" vs. "fewer"
A recent post had:
Not trying to play the language policeman role here, but I thought that some may appreciate my pointing out a subtlety in the English usage of "less" and "fewer". Especially for non-native speakers of English, there's a simple rule to help decide if "less" or "fewer" is the proper word.
The rule is "less is analogue, fewer is digital". (For non-techies, this would be "less is abstract, fewer is concrete (or countable)".)
For example, "I have less money, and fewer Euros". "Less" is used with an abstract (non-countable) concept of "money", and "fewer" with a countable concept of "Euros".
So, it would be more appropriate for the quoted line to be:
"Revenue" is abstract, but "developers" and "apps" are countable. (If you cite "revenue" as "dollars" - then it's countable and you'd say "fewer dollars".)
But, in keeping with the English language's complete lack of consistency - "more" applies to both analogue and digital. You can have "more" dollars and "more" money.
A recent post had:
Not trying to play the language policeman role here, but I thought that some may appreciate my pointing out a subtlety in the English usage of "less" and "fewer". Especially for non-native speakers of English, there's a simple rule to help decide if "less" or "fewer" is the proper word.
The rule is "less is analogue, fewer is digital". (For non-techies, this would be "less is abstract, fewer is concrete (or countable)".)
For example, "I have less money, and fewer Euros". "Less" is used with an abstract (non-countable) concept of "money", and "fewer" with a countable concept of "Euros".
So, it would be more appropriate for the quoted line to be:
"Revenue" is abstract, but "developers" and "apps" are countable. (If you cite "revenue" as "dollars" - then it's countable and you'd say "fewer dollars".)
But, in keeping with the English language's complete lack of consistency - "more" applies to both analogue and digital. You can have "more" dollars and "more" money.
Probably the people who don't know what jailbreaking is and incorrectly lump all jailbreaking with piracy or nefarious behavior, and they are happy to see these people having a harder time.
Yes. Because AT&T and Apple told us there would be tethering, and when they DID come out with it, it required me to give up FOREVER my unlimited data plan. No grandfathering. I call BS on that, and decided I needed to jailbreak just to tether at a cost that was reasonable for the little I use it in the field (literally). It is the only reason I have a jailbreak.
As far as modifying my iOS, I purchased an ibook to read and can't read it now... fine. They are not instituting a measure to protect from piracy, they are instigating a reason for someone to actually strip their DRM.
I have purchased over $100 in Kindle books in the last 2 months between my wife and I, so I have no intention of pirating if I can legally purchase and use what I purchased. At the time, my purchase worked fine on iBooks, they changed the software to prevent it.
I don't expect Apple to support my device, because I jailbroke it. I expect Apple to not actively determine if my device is jailbroken, and disable the device or an application on it because it is. It is no different then them intentionally bricking a phone with an update because it has a user modification.
This is enough for me to say bye bye. I will go back to my Linux boxes and move over to android, on principle. I will think long and hard before purchasing another Mac Pro, Macbook or anything else Apple. Apple thinks themselves holier then thou, sort of reminds me of another company wanting to put anti-piracy software into the CPU's. I converted over to
machines after running pirated OSX on a PC... I would have never done so, but after trying the hackintosh version, I actually liked it and guess what? PURCHASED a Mac Pro. Since I have spent a lot of money on their hardware and software. This is BS, so Linux runs nicely, and dual booting Linux/Windows is just as much fun as OSX/Windows (windows is only for gaming and programing my m/c tuners). I am just tired of the BS plays they make.
As far as modifying my iOS, I purchased an ibook to read and can't read it now... fine. They are not instituting a measure to protect from piracy, they are instigating a reason for someone to actually strip their DRM.
I have purchased over $100 in Kindle books in the last 2 months between my wife and I, so I have no intention of pirating if I can legally purchase and use what I purchased. At the time, my purchase worked fine on iBooks, they changed the software to prevent it.
I don't expect Apple to support my device, because I jailbroke it. I expect Apple to not actively determine if my device is jailbroken, and disable the device or an application on it because it is. It is no different then them intentionally bricking a phone with an update because it has a user modification.
This is enough for me to say bye bye. I will go back to my Linux boxes and move over to android, on principle. I will think long and hard before purchasing another Mac Pro, Macbook or anything else Apple. Apple thinks themselves holier then thou, sort of reminds me of another company wanting to put anti-piracy software into the CPU's. I converted over to
machines after running pirated OSX on a PC... I would have never done so, but after trying the hackintosh version, I actually liked it and guess what? PURCHASED a Mac Pro. Since I have spent a lot of money on their hardware and software. This is BS, so Linux runs nicely, and dual booting Linux/Windows is just as much fun as OSX/Windows (windows is only for gaming and programing my m/c tuners). I am just tired of the BS plays they make.Yes. Less apps. A developer isn't going to invest in (and pay employees for) creating as many new apps if they find most potential customers are downloading them for free. Especially if that melts the developers servers.
And analytics says that almost half of JB devices have modified apps on them. That's close enough to equal for many in the development community. Especially compared to the zero modified apps on stock OS devices. It's the neighbors you keep.
It doesn't matter. With the stock OS, Apple can tell the content owners "we know of no way someone can circumvent our DRM checks." With a jailbroken OS, they can't make that claim. It IS that simple.
Jailbreaking also has legitimate uses. The lock info app, fake operator, programs that are legitmate but otherwise violate Apple's developer rules like anything under GPL, etc. I'd love to have GPG on the phone, but as long as Apple's rules contradict GPL, that won't happen.
No it's not. If the iBooks DRM is ever cracked, it will not involve Jailbroken iPhones and the cracked books will work in iBooks running on a "genuine" iOS device.
well, they aren't actually doing that, but if they did then yes I'd support it.
You broke the agreement you originally agreed to, you no longer have the right to use the software at all.
There's a third option: Buy the book from Amazon or B&N, then strip the DRM, convert to epub and read it in Stanza or however you want.
For me this is the only option, since I won't buy a book that's tied to one device, and I won't pirate them. I want to pay and I want to use my nook collection on the next great e-book reader if it's not a nook. There's no way I'm going to re-buy all my books.
Actually, thats EXACTLY what they are doing with the binaries check....
They're blocking the ibooks functionality.
Same here. Does that firm also disclose how it gets those numbers?
I'll just keep asking firewood until he kindly provides us with his source
oh noez....can't read iBooks if I'm JB'd?
Of the 250+ books I've got in iBooks currently, all of four were not purchased though iBooks, and most of them were free (legally) in the first place; no DRM.
Shouldn't affect them, should I choose to jailbreak.