Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?

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Re: Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?

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Post by Nerdfest » Fri, Dec 06, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

mortenjorck wrote: post #55

phaer wrote: post #5

Serious question: Why bother? Why is there such an interest in using a very closed system in a way the vendor does not support if there are (more) open alternatives? Is it because you are forced to use an iPhone by external factors, like your employer? Are there critical features missing from Android and all the others? Is it just your personal preference? I really don't mean to offend anyone, it's just that I percei…

While there’s still about zero percent chance of it happening in the near term, I have to think that long-term, Apple will port Gatekeeper to iOS. It’s a near-ideal balance of security on OS X: Non-technical users can stay in the walled garden of the Mac App Store, semi-technical users can allow signed binaries, and power users can run whatever they want. I work in the mobile healthcare space, and right now, we’re st…

GateKeeper will not arrive on iOS, rather the converse will happen. Apple will lock down OSX. You will need a developer license to install 'non-approved' software. The success of iOS has demonstrated to them that people like velvet handcuffs. If you have any interest in open platforms you should not be giving Apple your money, and should be doing what you can to explain the dangers to others.

Re: Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?

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Post by mortenjorck » Fri, Dec 06, 2013, 10:12 PM UTC

Nerdfest wrote: post #111

mortenjorck wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While there’s still about zero percent chance of it happening in the near term, I have to think that long-term, Apple will port Gatekeeper to iOS. It’s a near-ideal balance of security on OS X: Non-technical users can stay in the walled garden of the Mac App Store, semi-technical users can allow signed binaries, and power users can run whatever they want. I work in the mobile healthcare space, and right now, we’re st…

GateKeeper will not arrive on iOS, rather the converse will happen. Apple will lock down OSX. You will need a developer license to install 'non-approved' software. The success of iOS has demonstrated to them that people like velvet handcuffs. If you have any interest in open platforms you should not be giving Apple your money, and should be doing what you can to explain the dangers to others.

See, that’s what FOSS zealots keep telling me, but I don’t buy it. The day Apple jails the Mac is the day they turn OS X into OS Xcode, because that’s the only professional software people will use on it anymore.

Adobe, Autodesk, Microsoft, and other enterprise companies will never agree to a 30% Apple cut for their Mac software, and Apple will never allow their kludgily-accreted codebases onto the App Store. Apple’s executive team may have the balls to cut all these companies out of the platform, but they’re not stupid.

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