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People seem to be JB-ing with a vengeance now almost like antennagate made it OK?
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"a developer of one of Android's top ten apps is seeing 97 percent of players in Asia using an illegal copy, 70 percent in Europe, and 43 percent in North America."
The amount of pirated software does not exactly equal the amount of profit loss from a developer.
A developer only losses money if somebody that would have bought a piece of software copies it instead of of buying it.
Some goes for music and movies
Now it is still wrong and illegal to do such things. If you can't afford it, the best thing to do is to go without. But a pirated copy does not exactly result in one less sale.
BTW, not saying that you made this claim. Just wanted to put it out there.
frash barely works. very buggy, and in alpha stage of development. you can't even watch video based flash. only basic flash games.
Like others have said, I think it's merely a function of how easy jailbreakme.com is to perform. Much like the 1.1.4 (maybe 1.1.3?) safari exploit jailbreak was back in the day. Don't remember the URL from back then but it was very similar. The new 4.0.1 jailbreak is probably the simplest jailbreak yet. Wish it worked for the 4.1 betas. Grrrr. Want my SBSettings and tethering back!
I have noticed that there are allot more newbies jailbreaking this time around then in the past three years. Many of them jailbreak and have no idea what to even do in Cydia and they barely look past what they see on the surface and think that is all there is to it and are disappointed.
Sure there are themes and nice graphics that can be added but I think the biggest benefit to jailbreaking are the apps and mods to change the way the iPhone operates such as iBlacklist and MyWi and 3G unrestrictor or My3G.
Someone last night mentioned that they wish there were instructions or a manual kind of explaining what things are in Cydia because they were lost. Others mentioned again how they were disappointed and so decided to restore to get rid of the jailbreak. I was just like them three years ago and got bored with Cydia and restored my phone. I think it was a year later when I jailbroke my phone again. Since then, my phone has always been this way.
Hopefully they figure it out and give it a chance and realize theres more then just themes and backgrounds and sounds.
As for pirating, I really hope people start realizing that it benefits everyone to start paying for apps they like. In a way, I do think it's ok to try out an app and then if you like it, pay for it. I tried out an app store app a few days ago called Air Video. After 10 minutes of using it and seeing that this app was one of the best things ever made, I bought it in iTunes and installed that server app on my computer and have used it allot since then.
I also know that there are some sources that can be added to Cydia that offer all kinds of cracked Cydia apps. When these sources are added, Cydia gives a warning that the source offers pirated apps and that they of course can't stop someone from using that source. I think that Cydia should ban those sources but Saurik is a an OK guy for allowing those sources to be added anyways.
This concludes chapter one.
Sure there are themes and nice graphics that can be added but I think the biggest benefit to jailbreaking are the apps and mods to change the way the iPhone operates such as iBlacklist and MyWi and 3G unrestrictor or My3G.
Someone last night mentioned that they wish there were instructions or a manual kind of explaining what things are in Cydia because they were lost. Others mentioned again how they were disappointed and so decided to restore to get rid of the jailbreak. I was just like them three years ago and got bored with Cydia and restored my phone. I think it was a year later when I jailbroke my phone again. Since then, my phone has always been this way.
Hopefully they figure it out and give it a chance and realize theres more then just themes and backgrounds and sounds.
As for pirating, I really hope people start realizing that it benefits everyone to start paying for apps they like. In a way, I do think it's ok to try out an app and then if you like it, pay for it. I tried out an app store app a few days ago called Air Video. After 10 minutes of using it and seeing that this app was one of the best things ever made, I bought it in iTunes and installed that server app on my computer and have used it allot since then.
I also know that there are some sources that can be added to Cydia that offer all kinds of cracked Cydia apps. When these sources are added, Cydia gives a warning that the source offers pirated apps and that they of course can't stop someone from using that source. I think that Cydia should ban those sources but Saurik is a an OK guy for allowing those sources to be added anyways.
This concludes chapter one.
It's just a subtle theory that may be very vague. It's not a big deal.
We pretty much came to the summary rather that's it's mostly because it's so easy and convenient.
I was just throwing it out there. No reason to get all east coast on me.