IBooks detects jailbroken iphones
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IBooks detects jailbroken iphones
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#2this ongoing battle is annoying. I just need my iphone to be a hotspot and I need a better notification system. Then i'll be happy.
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#3It's hard to muster too much outrage about this. You can't read your "rightfully purchased iBooks" on any other device either; you can't read them on a Kindle, nor, to the best of my knowledge, on an Apple Mac computer of any sort. You can't to my mind reasonably expect to play them on jailbroken phones either.
Why are you even buying iBook books? I can't understand the market proposition to them. Kindle books work on Apple and Amazon hardware, and have a wider selection. eBooks are already content-protected (this doesn't bother me, but bothers most geeks); why would you opt into the more protected of the two major options?
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#4Surely this is just going to encourage people to pirate these books? Seems like another case of DRM punishing the good guys.
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#6I'm glad that all the technical books I purchase come DRM-free. Articles like this remind me why DRM should be avoided.
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#7I doubt that this was solely intended as a 'screw you' to jailbreakers. More likely, it's because Apple can't guarantee the integrity of DRM on a jailbroken system, and that's one of the terms in their contracts with publishers.
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#8It's hard to muster too much outrage about this. You can't read your "rightfully purchased iBooks" on any other device either; you can't read them on a Kindle, nor, to the best of my knowledge, on an Apple Mac computer of any sort. You can't to my mind reasonably expect to play them on jailbroken phones either. Why are you even buying iBook books? I can't understand the market proposition to them. Kindle books work o…
> Kindle books work on Apple and Amazon hardware, and have a wider selection.
Kindle's DRM seems to be a sweet spot: effective enough to prevent casual piracy, but generally not annoying, and easy to bypass for anyone who cares about controlling their own media.
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#9After years of this type of thing from Apple I just can't feel sorry for anyone with a problem with this.
You know Apple, they are going to do this every time.
If you have a problem with that don't buy their products.
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#10It's hard to muster too much outrage about this. You can't read your "rightfully purchased iBooks" on any other device either; you can't read them on a Kindle, nor, to the best of my knowledge, on an Apple Mac computer of any sort. You can't to my mind reasonably expect to play them on jailbroken phones either. Why are you even buying iBook books? I can't understand the market proposition to them. Kindle books work o…
> Kindle books work on Apple and Amazon hardware, and have a wider selection. Kindle's DRM seems to be a sweet spot: effective enough to prevent casual piracy, but generally not annoying, and easy to bypass for anyone who cares about controlling their own media.
Do you have more info on this? If true, the ability to export to ePub would induce me to buy books in kindle format.
[edit: looks like there are some python scripts to do this. http://pastebin.com/f696ea728 This one claims to do the job. ]