@psychobdelic and the world
I'm fairly techie. I write code, have no hesitation to use a command line, have "cvsup and compile" the just-released FreeBSD 8.1 for my code repository server on my to-do list. People ask me for help with their computers all the time. Yet I have no doubt that psychobdelic can runs circles around me with regards to the arcana about all operating systems, stationary and mobile, and affiliated runtimes.
I agree jailbreaking should be okay and I really don't think Apple was all that aggressive about it. Their os loaders shouldn't say "whatever" when installing updates, otherwise the security of the system is compromised. Psychobdelic clearly understands that when he or she customizes his or her possessions, he or she takes responsibility for the good and bad.
Me, I guess I've gotten to an age where there are so many obsolesced technologies I've learned, like that carburetor on the '72 Dodge van, the inner workings of a teletype, the analog 1/8" tape recorder and razor blade editing bay, etc., that nowadays I need a real compelling reason to go deep on any thing.
I also look at the iPhone as phone that can do other things, rather than a computer that also telephones.
Apple tells me what their product does, others are generous with their words and time and tell me what it doesn't, if I want apps, there's a one-stop place to go which also has the free ones, and somebody took a look to see that they pretty much work, and should something malicious sneak through, the store proprietor will take responsibility and uninstall it. That works for me. I bought one (though I got it pre-App store.)
I join psychobdelic in wishing for the tomorrow in which we both are happy. A person of erudition and intelligence, I presume as there had been two years of Apple not being supportive of jail-breakers and there had been one year of us customers in the pram of the Apple-nanny app store, psychobdelic made a conscious choice to accept the restrictions that rankled as a cost of getting the better smartphone. So, he or she has to wait another year (Fie on two year contracts! Who's with me?) to get the next great and user-open phone. Or he or she could jailbreak his or her iPhone and breathe in the heady airs of freedom and responsibility.
It's about time I answered today's question. Are those the only two choices? The jailbreakers do what they do for their reasons. Apple does what they do for their reasons. I'm just a customer doing what I do for my reasons: I want a phone, I like apps, and I don't care about physical keyboards or that my finger is less precise than a pencil, and that is not a knock on people who think differently. I'm over here with the customers, with one hand in my pocket and the other one attenuating signal. Now that there's self-actualizing power.
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