On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
From my point of view, the iphone is a pretty nice piece of hardware that Pd runs pretty well on it, and its easy to use when its jailbroken. Its also incredibly lame having to work around Apple's greed-driven restrictions.
It's not Apple's fault, they had focus groups involving their most rabid fans, and the fans requested a jail that they would have to break out of. Apple obeyed, provided this construction of situation as a feature, and now those fans can Subvert Technology (tm) in a standardised manner provided by the establishment. The next advertisements of iPhones feature silhouettes of poseurs in the process of jailbreaking.
I agree that for anybody wanting to just see the iPhone as a simply good piece of semiconductor, it can be frustrating.
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