This comment on Gizmodo’s post about how the app store doesn’t make jailbreaking of iPhones moot is almost too stupid and funny for words:
The “jailbreak” community is violating Apple’s and AT&T’s agreements and terms of service, just because it suits them to do so. And if they’re willing to break the law in that regard, then as far as I’m concerned they could just as easily be willing to break the law in other ways as well.
How dare their modify a device they own to suit their own purposes! What devious criminality!
Ignoring that silliness, Gizmodo is right on about the continuing need for jailbreaking. As predicted, Apple is ruling the app store with an iron fist, holding back applications that offend them or their partners and apps that modify their precious OS. Even the apps that do get in to their program take weeks to be approved and weeks for upgrades to push out.
That’s not to say that I don’t like the app store. There is absolutely a place for whitelisted, neutered apps to tickle ordinary users (with limited capacity for damage to their phone). But that monolithic playground of cleanliness isn’t a one-to-one replacement for a market of unencumbered apps.
christophr says
I find it amusing/annoying/maddening that an app like Twitterrific makes its way into the in App Store, and no other app yet has crashed my phone as much as it has. Nearly every time I fire it up. It once crashed to the point where I had to do a restore. I’ve tried a couple of the other Twitter apps (Twinkle and Twittelator) and they don’t seem to crash as much as Twitterrific.
What I want to know is why can’t anyone come up with a decent app for Twitter, fortheloveofgod?