Comments on: How Apple Can Beat the Hackers and Please Their Customers at the Same Time http://staynalive.com/articles/2007/10/03/how-apple-can-beat-the-hackers-and-please-their-customers-at-the-same-time/ Social Media, Tech, and Rants From Jesse Stay, The "Social" Geek Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:07:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: uncle_jesse http://staynalive.com/articles/2007/10/03/how-apple-can-beat-the-hackers-and-please-their-customers-at-the-same-time/#comment-10151 uncle_jesse Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:27:38 +0000 http://staynalive.com/2007/10/03/how-apple-can-beat-the-hackers-and-please-their-customers-at-the-same-time/#comment-10151 <p>Dan,</p><br><p>Where are you getting that I think the hackers are in the wrong? You should really read my blog more. I'm simply providing a solution to Apple that I think could work for them. It wouldn't please the hackers, I agree - I hacked my phone too. It wouldn't please me either, but for the majority of their customers, it would please them - Apple's having a hard enough time just pleasing their regular, non-hacker customers lately.</p> Dan,

Where are you getting that I think the hackers are in the wrong? You should really read my blog more. I'm simply providing a solution to Apple that I think could work for them. It wouldn't please the hackers, I agree - I hacked my phone too. It wouldn't please me either, but for the majority of their customers, it would please them - Apple's having a hard enough time just pleasing their regular, non-hacker customers lately.

]]> By: uncle_jesse http://staynalive.com/articles/2007/10/03/how-apple-can-beat-the-hackers-and-please-their-customers-at-the-same-time/#comment-381 uncle_jesse Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:27:38 +0000 http://staynalive.com/2007/10/03/how-apple-can-beat-the-hackers-and-please-their-customers-at-the-same-time/#comment-381 <p>Dan,</p> <p>Where are you getting that I think the hackers are in the wrong? You should really read my blog more. I'm simply providing a solution to Apple that I think could work for them. It wouldn't please the hackers, I agree - I hacked my phone too. It wouldn't please me either, but for the majority of their customers, it would please them - Apple's having a hard enough time just pleasing their regular, non-hacker customers lately.</p> Dan,

Where are you getting that I think the hackers are in the wrong? You should really read my blog more. I’m simply providing a solution to Apple that I think could work for them. It wouldn’t please the hackers, I agree - I hacked my phone too. It wouldn’t please me either, but for the majority of their customers, it would please them - Apple’s having a hard enough time just pleasing their regular, non-hacker customers lately.

]]> By: Dan Jones http://staynalive.com/articles/2007/10/03/how-apple-can-beat-the-hackers-and-please-their-customers-at-the-same-time/#comment-10150 Dan Jones Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:53:34 +0000 http://staynalive.com/2007/10/03/how-apple-can-beat-the-hackers-and-please-their-customers-at-the-same-time/#comment-10150 <p>Are you kidding me? You actually believe the hackers are in the wrong, here? How would you feel if you went to your local Ford dealership, and bought a new car, but they told you that you're not allowed to put in a new stereo, you can't adjust the seat, and you can't even open the hood. In fact, the only thing you're allowed to change on it is filling up the gas tank. Would that seem right to you? After all, you bought the car: it belongs to you. Who are they to say how you can and can't use it?</p><br><p>That's essentially what Apple has done with the iPhone. They've sold you a device that you can only use within the narrow parameters that they've given. "Hacking" the iPhone is not illegal, and certainly not immoral. All the hackers have done is try to make the phone usable in a way that pleases them.</p><br><p>Really, the solution is to not buy an iPhone, but unfortunately, there aren't any other smartphones yet that have the feature set for that price. The Linux-based GTA02, which will hopefully come out this month comes extremely close, and actively encourages REAL third-party apps (not just crappy web-based Javascript ones you can view in Safari), and works on any GSM network. Unfortunately, it'll be a couple hundred dollars more than the iPhone.</p> Are you kidding me? You actually believe the hackers are in the wrong, here? How would you feel if you went to your local Ford dealership, and bought a new car, but they told you that you're not allowed to put in a new stereo, you can't adjust the seat, and you can't even open the hood. In fact, the only thing you're allowed to change on it is filling up the gas tank. Would that seem right to you? After all, you bought the car: it belongs to you. Who are they to say how you can and can't use it?

That's essentially what Apple has done with the iPhone. They've sold you a device that you can only use within the narrow parameters that they've given. “Hacking” the iPhone is not illegal, and certainly not immoral. All the hackers have done is try to make the phone usable in a way that pleases them.

Really, the solution is to not buy an iPhone, but unfortunately, there aren't any other smartphones yet that have the feature set for that price. The Linux-based GTA02, which will hopefully come out this month comes extremely close, and actively encourages REAL third-party apps (not just crappy web-based Javascript ones you can view in Safari), and works on any GSM network. Unfortunately, it'll be a couple hundred dollars more than the iPhone.

]]> By: Dan Jones http://staynalive.com/articles/2007/10/03/how-apple-can-beat-the-hackers-and-please-their-customers-at-the-same-time/#comment-380 Dan Jones Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:53:34 +0000 http://staynalive.com/2007/10/03/how-apple-can-beat-the-hackers-and-please-their-customers-at-the-same-time/#comment-380 <p>Are you kidding me? You actually believe the hackers are in the wrong, here? How would you feel if you went to your local Ford dealership, and bought a new car, but they told you that you're not allowed to put in a new stereo, you can't adjust the seat, and you can't even open the hood. In fact, the only thing you're allowed to change on it is filling up the gas tank. Would that seem right to you? After all, you bought the car: it belongs to you. Who are they to say how you can and can't use it?</p> <p>That's essentially what Apple has done with the iPhone. They've sold you a device that you can only use within the narrow parameters that they've given. "Hacking" the iPhone is not illegal, and certainly not immoral. All the hackers have done is try to make the phone usable in a way that pleases them.</p> <p>Really, the solution is to not buy an iPhone, but unfortunately, there aren't any other smartphones yet that have the feature set for that price. The Linux-based GTA02, which will hopefully come out this month comes extremely close, and actively encourages REAL third-party apps (not just crappy web-based Javascript ones you can view in Safari), and works on any GSM network. Unfortunately, it'll be a couple hundred dollars more than the iPhone.</p> Are you kidding me? You actually believe the hackers are in the wrong, here? How would you feel if you went to your local Ford dealership, and bought a new car, but they told you that you’re not allowed to put in a new stereo, you can’t adjust the seat, and you can’t even open the hood. In fact, the only thing you’re allowed to change on it is filling up the gas tank. Would that seem right to you? After all, you bought the car: it belongs to you. Who are they to say how you can and can’t use it?

That’s essentially what Apple has done with the iPhone. They’ve sold you a device that you can only use within the narrow parameters that they’ve given. “Hacking” the iPhone is not illegal, and certainly not immoral. All the hackers have done is try to make the phone usable in a way that pleases them.

Really, the solution is to not buy an iPhone, but unfortunately, there aren’t any other smartphones yet that have the feature set for that price. The Linux-based GTA02, which will hopefully come out this month comes extremely close, and actively encourages REAL third-party apps (not just crappy web-based Javascript ones you can view in Safari), and works on any GSM network. Unfortunately, it’ll be a couple hundred dollars more than the iPhone.

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