On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 12 February 2009 11:08 pm, Chris Penn wrote: > >> Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal
J-walking is illegal. People still do it. >> >> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking-illegal >> >> This makes me want to go out and buy one right now. > You should, its a pretty darn handy phone. > While I absolutely understand your point, to me it's another reason to > want to NOT buy products from Apple. > I am torn on the issue. I will buy Apple products despite their attempts to tell me how to use things. > While I'm generally a tool-user, and non-political, this kind of stand > says to me that I can't use the tool the way I want. > > "If I had a hammer ... I'd hammer in the morning..." > > Wait, I can't do that. The hammer company says I can only use it in the > evening. > > Jeff I'm going to use things however I'm going to use them. Period. I'm not of the nature that I have to hack everything I buy. Sometimes I just want things to work (KISS) and other times I want it to do what I need it to do. I love my iPhone for the most part. Have some coverage issues in a few spots/dropped calls other then that its great. For me its a KISS device. its not my primary email client, but when i need to get an email I can use it. Same with accessing a website. My iPhone is also why I have not yet purchased a netbook. These limitations that Apple has put into place are nothing new. This has been a catch22 for Apple for many years. The reason their stuff works so well is that they lock out everyone. Only allowing what they know to work. The down side of that is that it severely crippled their adoption in the market for many years. Microsoft on the other hand let everyone and their mom make a modem and of course that's why there were so many crappy modems for Windows. That's why I like Linux/FOSS. Its the middle ground between the two. Anyone can make "X" and others have access to the code so that they can improve upon it. > -- > Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services > P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: > "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
