Re:ownership of personal electronics (Score 1)

Sorry but your analogy is totally false. The situation we're looking at here is as follows: Chrysler sells you a jeep. You put a lift on it. You bring it into the dealership for an oil change. Chrysler takes off all your modifications and gives you back your jeep in completely undriveable condition. They didn't HAVE to, but they did, just because they have some kind of ridiculous issue with people putting modifications on their cars. The features Apple is updating on their phones have NOTHING to do with the third party software that people are trying to use. There is no reason why apple has to deliberately impede people from using the software. I understand that they have every right to do this under "TEH LAW" but come on. In all frankness, apple wouldn't even be in the position to be selling iPhones if it wasn't for people who broke the law. There sure as hell wouldn't have been a market for iPods. Networks wouldn't have improved, programs wouldn't have evolved, basically, intellectual property and license agreements are a petty attempt at trying to get people to conform to ideal arrangements which maximize profit from a very limited legal and technological perspective. They fail to take into account the exdogenous developments that might emerge from allowing people to actually do their own thing and use things in new ways. Yet, at every point, people do anyway, and we are all better off because of it. All of you who try to claim that people who cracked their iPhone should stop whining, that Apple and AT&T are in the right, that hackers, pirates, and everybody else should be rightfully locked up, really have no business even talking. The internet is what it is because many of the people who pioneered it wouldn't let corporate lawyers, license agreements, and a whole bunch of other nonsense that tries to make physical property out of intellectual property (two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS), define the boundaries of their creativity. I just hope apple wakes up and realizes this, because I'll be waiting until then to update my iPhone. Or until the next crack comes out... which, if history tells us anything, should probably be tomorrow.