While a recent ruling by a judge regarding the DMCA might seem like big news to the mobile modding community, Apple’s reaction is pretty tame. They recently released a statement that maintains the status quo: basically, they’re aware that we jailbreak our iPhones, they didn’t react to it back then, and they aren’t going to start now.
Here’s the official word from Apple:
Apple’s goal has always been to insure that our customers have a great experience with their iPhone and we know that jailbreaking can severely degrade the experience. As we’ve said before, the vast majority of customers do not jailbreak their iPhones as this can violate the warranty and can cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably.
Again, it’s really nothing new. They know we jailbreak our iPhones, and they didn’t stop it. They come out with something new, we keep buying the new thing, find ways to break into the new thing, and they still won’t really do anything about it. As long as we, the consumers, understand that software piracy is still illegal (for those who hack into their iPhones for that reason), and that they won’t replace a busted device if it’s been jailbroken—then Apple seems to be pretty cool with it. And we’ve been cool with that.
Now, if only we can find a totally universal jailbreak app that can open up iOS 4 without having to go through hoops and bootrom restrictions, we’d be golden. (By the way, something like that is apparently coming soon.)
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