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Soli said: I find it weird that so many people on this forum feel that for an ARM-based Mac to exist that an Intel-based Mac can't -or- that so many can only see it within the scope of an A-series chip, which often gets argued as not having enou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil And yet its proponents laud it as the way the iPhone should exist and how Apple is evil for doing anything else. Wrong. What proponents want is the ability to make that choice without having to jump thr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Well, there goes your credibility. And this sentence somehow magically keeps the device as secure, despite one of its key accessibility features being direct, unprotected access to all files on the d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AaronJ Nothing threatens me. I couldn't care less, to be honest. What bothers, me, though, is someone claiming that the iPhone he bought is somehow so screwed up -- due to THINGS HE KNEW ABOUT GOING IN! It's lik…
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Quote: Originally Posted by xPad No, jailbreaking is breaking the security, not "broken security". QUIT USING QUOTES as though I've said any of those words. You've literally "quoted" nothing I've written. Nor did I say it was "literally the onl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Esprit de Corps Jailbreakers, by definition, are crooks. Please, don't hate, just accept it. Under 17 U.S.C. § 1201 (part of the DMCA) the Library of Congress may designate certain classes of work as being exempt fro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich So no iOS app dev work? 1) If you really think that matters, you're being finicky just to try to justify an ad-hominem. Are you selling anything on the App Store yourself and suffering from piracy as …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Smallwheels The top sentence in this quotation says it all. I believe it is total BS too. Not the statement or it's truth, but the legal ramifications that go with it. When I bought my first computer and turned it on…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AaronJ Did the system come as a surprise to you when you first turned on your iPhone? And let me inform you of something: Yes, it is TOTALLY fine for Apple to "prevent [you] from exercising your rights to do with…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan I still don't get why people who want all this tweaking ability just don't go Android. Seems to me jailbreaking is more trouble than its worth, Because most Android devices *also* need similar circumventions …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich What software have you worked on? Aside from patches to various free software projects (which, for this context probably doesn't count), probably none you would know unless you're into statistical bio…
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Quote: Originally Posted by freediverx Bravo, jhulgan! Nice insult coming from an anonymous Astroturfer who just signed up on the forum less than 24 hours ago. DED - in stark contrast to Fox News - is one of the few tech writers who's act…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Macnewsjunkie The problem with saying jailbreaking has nothing to do with stealing is human nature. All locking a phone does is put up a virtual wall between the customer and the merchandise. Yes this means that cert…
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Quote: Originally Posted by xPad I never said jailbreaking was bad (in the moral sense, as you're using here). And I never said all people use jailbreaking for pirating. But piracy is one of the common reasons. Common reasons why people us…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SockRolid "To be fair..."? Oh please. Do you think stealing software and media is fair, in any way, to the developers and artists who create it? Because that's what piracy is. It's stealing. It's not "fair." So…