I have been lucky enough to read one of the best opinion articles that I have read in this world in recent months, it is by Julio Cesar Fernández and it is published on Appleweblog. Talk about hacking on iOS and it is so well explained that I am just going to quote it, I think I have nothing to add or omit.
Thank you Julio Cesar:
«Today something I suspected was crystal clear to me. There is a sector of the population that says they want to jailbreak on your iOS devices for the simple reason of having more freedom when it comes to customizing the possibilities of it and to be able to have an interesting store like Cydia full of possibilities that Apple does not officially allow. In short, people who want to get more out of the possibilities of iOS. To all of them, great because they are using a functionality that although it loses the warranty of the device, it is legal, so no problem.
But there are also other elements, that all they want is to install a program called Installous, in order to fill their device with games (mostly) that it is materially impossible for them to play at the same time, given the amount, and that are considered with the right not to pay amounts "as stratospheric" as € 0,79, for a game. Of course, later they will spend much more on bottles, or on a coffee, or on paying for an hour of parking in a controlled area, on a can of soda, gasoline for the car ... all that is worth paying, but for a game?
It must be that these gentlemen think that games are like mushrooms in the forest. A good supply of moss or a very damp fern, and they come out everywhere. Games and applications should be the same, and they don't stop to think that there are companies or independent developers behind it, with professionals who spend hours thinking, designing, programming, composing music, recording voices, performing all kinds of tests ... a job of months and even years, that is offered at an affordable and competitive price so that it is available to anyone... but still, why pay? I get it for free, period.
That is what the more than 15.000 people who play the game Fingerkicks, who appear on the game boards, but have not paid for it, have to think. As I read in the blog of the company Gameized, creators of the same, the total sales reported by the App Store since they launched the game does not exceed 1.200 sales, and yet there are just over 17.000 users with results and different Apple IDs in Game Center. If we remove those who buy with the same Apple ID but then use several for Game Center (in family accounts) the figure is somewhat lower, but still it's really embarrassing to see how lightly people take each other's work, and think that they are entitled to pay nothing. And beware, Fingerkicks not only cost € 0,79, it is also universal so it works for iPad and iPhone / iPod Touch !!.
I have said it once, and it is totally true: I am in favor of thetry before buy, and I practice it myself. There is a lot of music in the genre that I like, and it is normal for me to go down to hear something and be able to be clear if it is of interest or not (sometimes I use Spotify for that, which is also fine). In that sense, Installous fulfills a function that the App Store does not allow: download the game or program, give it a try and see if it's really worth it. It seems correct to me and we are in our right as consumers. What doesn't seem right to me is that we keep it, period.
We are not talking about stratospheric amounts, nothing affordable. We are talking about a game that costs € 0,79 ($ 0,99) which is much less than what we pay every day for other things, but of course, here we enter a cultural problem. Stealing a CD is a crime, because we are stealing a CD (something physical and tangible), but downloading it not because there is nothing tangible ("only" it is data). If we go to the store and we take a Nintendo DS game under our shirt it is very bad and we do not do it because it is a robbery, but downloading it online is no longer the same ... the fault does not exist. No gentlemen, we are talking about the same thing.
By the way, and as a clarification, go also a wake-up call for Apple Well, honestly, it seems to me that they have not realized that allowing pirated games to use Game Center and all its functionalities is a disservice to their business model. As it already does, for example, Microsoft banning Xbox 360 consoles that are modified in their firmware to allow pirated copies, Game Center should do the same. You should not allow Apple IDs that have not legally purchased the game to use Game Center.
In the end, from my point of view, the future of cultural consumption happens because the user can try the product: game demos to test it as there are on platforms such as Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, services such as Spotify that allow me to listen to all the music that I want and select which one is worth paying for or services like NetFlix that allow me to see the movies I want, and when I see a good one, buy it if I want. Services that are affordable to any audience, that allow to consume in an easy and direct way and to be able to choose with all the guarantees what we like and pay for it.
But stealing something that is not tangible, such as downloading a game, is not legal. And in the end, whether we like it or not, we are stealing for a very simple reason: we are getting something that has a price without giving the same. We will be stealing € 0,79, which cannot be considered a crime, but we are doing it and that is wrong. The only person we help and the only person we favor is ourselves, but we are harming many with that act.
The current market failure is twofold, in my view: prices that do not correspond to the products (too expensive in many cases) and not having the opportunity to see, hear or play what we are going to buy, before making the purchase. investment. But these people are showing that even this is not enough. They are showing that there is a very important sector of the population that will not pay anything because they consider themselves with the right to use whatever they want no matter what or who has done that work. That doesn't seem right to me.
Not all are criminal pirates, nor is the culture industry a Saint. There is a middle ground in which there are conflicts that must be solved and business models that must be redefined.Abusive and obsolete concepts such as the current application of copyright, with a duration of 70 years after the death of the author, must be changed. But they have to be to adapt to a very clear reality:
- Where the author or authors of a work (music, film, game, etc.) receive remuneration for their work, the highest of all in percentage since they are the creators and origin.
- Where the distribution channels are comfortable, efficient and accessible to anyone of any economic capacity, receiving remuneration for their performance, but much less than the author.
- Where the absurd concepts of compensation for private copy or the penalty of trying before you buy disappear. The proof before the purchase must be a right.
But if people like Apple, create a business model for the future, with a brilliant distribution channel where the channel receives 30% of the price and the creators 70% (most of it) and puts a product at an affordable price at any pocket… what we cannot do is allow a series of people without morals to take advantage of it And don't even think it's worth paying that tiny amount for the effort of a team, company or developer.
Please, it's very simple. It is as easy as paying for the apple they buy in the store or the gum in the gummies. You have to pay for it, in the same way that it does not occur to them to leave with the gum running. You have to pay the price of things (it seems incredible that I have to say this) and with this it will be achieved that more and more companies make games and that we all enjoy them. If in the candy store 80% of the people took things without paying, in the end it would have to close, right? Seeing this brutal percentage of piracy on iOS (and that which is more complex to hack and is understood as an ecosystem that is working) now I explain why no company in their right mind bets on Android where piracy levels are even higher. And it's a shame, because if companies saw potential in Android and bet on it, the possibilities would be brutal.
And by the way, the issue of credit cards is not worth it and I do not want to give them online (but then I do give it to a waiter I do not know so that he can get out of my sight and charge me the food, by the way , pass it through a duplicator if necessary). If we do not trust ourselves (something that seems to me completely coherent and legal) or simply, we do not have a credit or debit card, there is an easy solution: in any large area there are some magnificent prepaid iTunes cards for € 15, which will give us a lot and where you do not have to give any card of anything. Safer and faster impossible. "
The truth is that I was impressed by how well written and explained it is.
Also, I share your opinion 100%.
I was one of those who took advantage of the jailbreak to install everything "for free." But finally I have understood that it is a shame to hack applications that provide a great amount of fun or usefulness, and that have such a low cost. In this case, the argument that "the programs are too expensive" is a fallacy.
That is why I no longer use the jailbreak on my devices. And the truth is that, in my opinion, now they work much better for me. The topic of system customizations I do not miss very much. Just the quicklock.
In addition, with the constant sales of the various applications, if you are aware and it is not essential to have the latest applications on your way out, you can buy everything at very reasonable prices by waiting a little.
Freedom, it's that simple. Freedom ... if you do not agree, do not do it, but it is not good to come and throw stones at the evil pirates ... freedom. It's easy to be good at it and come and point the finger at the terrible bad guys. If we go to those, apple is the devil incarnate ... freedom. We all have tails to be stepped on. Be kind, be free.
I do not agree although I think I am one of the few who buy applications in the appstore I think that jailbreak is totally legal and legal since in the cydia repo there are thousands of applications that do not pass the filter or censorship that Apple imposes on its product.
Trying the final version of a product before buying it does not seem bad either since there are thousands of apps that can be classified as little more than a scam, I am one of the people that if I am interested in an application, I buy it, period.
I am with you. My latest acquisition the iPhone 4 does not know the jailbreak while my previous 3GS and edge do.
I had read the article on Appleweblog and found it to be very good and consistent.
I prefer to have fewer applications, or songs, or movies on my computers but that are official, with their updates, their "failures", their proper functioning, etc., and not have thousands of games, applications, that I don't use later and that are hacked.
Since the release of 3G I have not felt the need to jailbreak devices (only the original US iPhone), neither to free it nor to hack games or apps, which I like and I think I need to stay with it original. What's more, I have practically the same applications for a couple of years, because my needs are already covered, also more than enough.
Considering what Cydia and the jailbreak for the iPhone have meant, not in vain they were the precursors of the Appstore on iOS, it seems to me that hacking the software that guarantees the future of the platform at the level of applications and games is suicide. If this continues, there will come a time when the developers will not obtain benefits in their WORK and will abandon it, then we would all be harmed.
The truth is I only jailbreak to be able to install themes on my ipod and most importantly ... FREE GAMES !!! Fuck what that dude thinks 😉
My iPad is Jailbroken, my iPhone 4 is not, but for the simple reason that the battery lasts less. Actually, I do not care about this, I will continue to download cracked games, total IN EVERYTHING, PIRACY WILL ALWAYS EXIST 😉
If one has the restriction of the use of Credit Cards due to an exchange control by the authorities and in addition to a cap on the amount of US $ 400,00 per year, I must by necessity use Installous if I locate an app , utility and / or game that is of benefit to me. In addition, I sign up / write down as soon as the raffle I see on the different web page (s)
I think that this is not a new thing at the moment, this happens in all fields, from recording on tapes, vhs, and games in different formats, in some way or another we have all had something copied, sometime and it hasn't been 3 years ago years, as you say there are ways to make it safer, at the end of the day if they don't do it by instalous they will do it by apptr…. or by other ways.
I would vote for all the apps to have a small demo, I still remember with longing the hobby express with its demos of tapes for the spectrum, I think it is a good point to follow but the problem is in the education acquired over the years, I think that with banning the gamecenter or is it enough also, who believes the gamecenter rankings ???
Installous store, the best prices Hoyga !!
At this point there are still people who say that by jailbreak their device works but without it or that it uses more battery ... It is as if you told me that your PC works worse or uses more battery if you enter with an administrator account or account user without privileges. Blessed ignorance.
Another thing is that you install a hundred thousand useless applications that change the icons and make the app spin when closed. That is what depletes the capacity of your device and your battery, not the jailbreak.
I do not understand an iPhone without sbsettings, Activator or without some Cydia tweaks / appps that I have obtained for free or paying where it was necessary. The text talks about hacking, not jailbreak. They are different things.
And I agree with everything he says.
I agree with the article, I congratulate the author. Although I do not believe that it has never pirated, what's more, what difference is there in downloading a game from the installous to see if you like it, and if you don't like it, you don't buy it, right? The damage is practically the same, the download has been carried out… Of the 15000 users you say have downloaded the pirate game, how do you know that they all play it? Maybe most of them did it, as you say, to test it (which is already registered in the game center simply by making the first game) and then they decided not to buy it because they didn't like it very much. I admit that just as I charge the free installous, I also buy the ones that I really like, but I have to like them a lot ...
With all this I just want to say that neither the bad guys are so bad nor the good guys are so good ...
regards
Thanks emerge, finally someone who knows what the jailbreak is ...
The problem is not the Jailbreak, the Jailbreak does not harm anyone, in any case the owner of the device, although it has never given me problems. The problem is Installous, which is the door to theft. Anyway, this man The only thing he has done is to publicize an application to hack that not everyone knows. I have several acquaintances with JB and they did not know installous. Surely now they already know it, be careful with what we write, it can turn against it ...
the person who wrote this news also "steals" content without paying for it ... he thinks he is less guilty for trying that application and if he does not like to delete it ... the simple download is to obtain content illegally .... paint some "developer" if we can call him so resentful that he will have an app in the app store and that he does not sell anything ... the time you spent writing this could have been spent on improving your app xD
regards!
You're right, since I don't have a credit card when I run out of balance, I go to the English court and buy a € 15 prepaid card and keep buying games, which is what I buy the most.
add that this editor will also download cydia applications that there are also many people working and surely they do not pay for them or have not ever done so ...
anyway…
In my opinion, I believe that everyone is free to do whatever they want. but if you really want to prevent people from using the installous, don't put tutorials on how to download it. eye I am not accusing this blog I speak in general and in the panorama of the blogsphere. here the one who is free to throw the first stone ... and let's not be so hypocritical
Gnzl, it is true what this article says, but I think that we are all participants in piracy, including you, beyond whether we download free apps or not!
What is the fundamental requirement to do it… .. ???? Yes… .. JAILBREAK !!!!
What this article preaches also applies to large companies, call themselves Apple, Microsoft, etc. we are putting the FACT OF STEALING on the cloth, but it seems that it is trying to direct all this in favor of the small developers. I am not saying that because we are small or independent we should not pay for their creations, but we should also pay for large companies.
What am I going with all this? that if I am really against piracy, I should not encourage other practices, which although they are legal in themselves, open the doors to the illegal (piracy) such as Jailbreak. In other words, if you publish articles on how to violate Apple's software, you are indirectly promoting piracy.
I just wanted to express my perspective on the matter and with no intention of offending anyone, but I think the issue is a little deeper and not just the fact of NOT PAYING for apps. !!
Kind regards to all the people of Actualidad Iphone!
Cristian I am with you, I also have said the same. I get screwed by people who are a victim and defending something that he does not respect, he simply makes up by saying that he downloads it from the installous first to test it, and if he likes it then he will buy it and if not, no ... Gentlemen, it's the same ... If you don't buy it, you have downloaded it anyway… even if you have played 5 minutes… I think writing this letter you will feel better and anger as a savior… Before I said that it was a good article but now I am beginning to doubt it…
Marcos, you are absolutely right ...
Well, I disagree, it says that taking a game from a store and taking it without paying is a robbery, until there I agree, and it says that that is the same as downloading it, on that I no longer agree, downloading it is the same as if someone buys a game and then lend it, because if you can download the game, it means that someone has bought it, but due to the way the internet spreads it is like lending it to thousands of people at the same time, but that is another matter.
Don't you think we already pay a lot for the iPhone 4 / iPod touch 4G / iPad?
someone read the article where it says that aple has enough money to buy all the other phone companies? And the amount of downloads that are made from the app store and all the millions of dollars that that means, does someone really think like this guy who says that piracy will be capable of making aple go bankrupt? naaa and stealing something intangible will never be the same as stealing an apple in a store our mind does not perceive it that way
K LONG LIVE THE JAILBREAK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I'm in luck!
I am very capricious and if I see something I want it, but as whims that are after a few days-weeks I delete them to make room for others and I will not pay € 29 (for a gps) or € 0,79 (for a game) if later I will not use them.
It is also true that every promo or offer that exists and the app is free I download it without knowing what it is or how it works until I try it and then delete it
have if you find out …… this is like apples if they are stolen they like more and it is not what it costs but the achievement of having them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that piracy is not the worst of all evils, in my country MEXICO, piracy gives EAT to thousands of families who do not have the same opportunities that other people have, they benefit by selling piracy, that is a great A blow to the industry, but a job is created that neither the country nor the industry can give them.
As for the cracked apps; thinking about the cost of the device that Apple will cost 150 $ (or less) to build one of their devices and sell them to us at 400, 500, 600 or what they think their devices are worth, but that as it is not illegal It is not frowned upon, in the end it is a matter of choice, one chooses to buy it or not, just as one chooses to install a cracked app
This is the same old story ... It is almost impossible to adapt what the internet offers us with LEGALITY ... The subject of books, music and movies is particular and the same criteria cannot be applied to it as to other products ... if I take my car and I buy all the necessary parts to make an exact copy. Whose car is it? it is clear that mine and nobody will dare to say that I have stolen it ... if I take a virgin CD, a recorder and my original CD, whose copy of CD is it? it is still mine ... the problem is the ease of copying the mentioned articles and that is where our heads go by calling pirates those who are only sharing THE COPY of someone who bought that game, book, program, etc ... and finally , to remind you Gnzl friend that (taking into account the statistics that are named in that text from 1 to 10 in "legal" versus "illegal" people) thanks to those thousands of "pirates" you have a very nice website full of advertising from which you get a nice income
I think that piracy is not the worst of all evils, in my country MEXICO, piracy gives EAT to thousands of families who do not have the same opportunities that other people have, they benefit by selling piracy, that is a great A blow to the industry, but a job is created that neither the country nor the industry can give them.
As for the cracked apps; Thinking about the cost of the device, which will cost Apple $ 150 (or less) to build one of their devices and sell them to us at 400, 500, 600 or what they think their devices are worth, but that as it is not illegal And it is not frowned upon, in the end it is a matter of choice, one chooses to buy it or not, just as one chooses to install a cracked app or not.
I am not interested in these moralistic matters ... And in the end it is the editor's opinion, and it is respectable. But because in the end it doesn't say: "You don't have to buy iPhones because they almost enslave the employees in their factories."
I will continue to install cracked apps ... For the simple fact that it is my choice!
Regards!
This website is not mine Sergio, here we do not teach how to download applications illegally.
Let's see when you stop associating jailbreak with piracy, jailbreak is great, piracy is a problem for people who want to make a living from it.
OK, to be honest, if there is no piracy, companies like Apple would close down, no one would buy an iPhone if they had to pay a lot to use it, you can delete your item, we continue to use game center, in a while I thought like you and bought a pococ of applications, and it is hard for developers to sell something that does not work, if you do not pay you do not complain, but the truth is I spent a bit of dollars buying applications and today I only use the beejiveim from time to time, it is a shame that Users are stolen in this way, that's why I encourage them to pirate them to refine and take color, assholes, the other thing is that you as a user write this, we all suffer apple abuses and nobody does anything, at least they pay us their abuses.
Juyt, the apps are not from Apple, they are made by independent developers.
You don't steal from Apple, you don't steal from a big dam, you steal from a developer trying to get on with his life.
The piracy will never end, and I have needed many applications many times, when I bought my first ipod touch I downloaded the apps from Apple but I realized that it was a waste of money because I use many applications (at school, at work, at the house, in the car) of which I was sometimes unsatisfied and erased them (more loss of money).
Yes, as they say I have the option of downloading them or not, but I already tried and for me having Installous on my device is great!
Everyone does what they want but piracy is also a good means of promoting products, as well as saying about the game that has only sold 1,200 but that they play more than 17,000 great games like AngryBirds for example they would be nothing now if it weren't for the piracy that made them known.
That is my opinion Greetings!
It is not very realistic for us to say the fact of NOT associating Jailbreak with piracy ... but I'm not trying to argue, just remember that the statistics are clear, 90 out of 100 users are interested in Jailbreak because of their option to hack. Or is it that on this website ... and in almost all the others there is no mention of Intall0us or Appsync ... etc?
Well, the truth is that I do not agree with the kinds of supposed "moral" that they have tried to give us with this post, since of course I can presume that most of those who visit this type of blog are of legal age since Apple computers are not effectively characterized by being cheap and that of course we know our responsibility in our actions and what bothers me is that they treat us as if we were ignorant, of course we know that it is not correct to download applications without paying for them, well You are dealing with morons, many of us who visit this site have common sense and many are people prepared with degrees or postgraduate degrees, and it is not that they are in favor of piracy, of course not and in any sense, but the one that is free of A sin that throws the first stone, that they have never downloaded a song that is fashionable for the party and would pay for the complete album, some movie, game, book, or bought any merchandise that and it was an imitation of the original, because all that is also called piracy and that as they rightly pointed out has nothing to do with the jailbreak which by the way is a myth that uses more battery or reduces the performance of the equipment but hey that is another thing and that in cydia you find magnificent applications and that you also have to pay for them, and what happens with the piracy that Apple does by stealing the ideas of the applications that first came out in cydia such as copy and paste, multitasking, customization notifications, etc. What I have said in different blogs is that no one remembers that the iPhone was a closed system and only had about 10 applications and thanks to those who did the jailbreak and those who dedicated themselves to making applications and that they were all on the side dark, is the iPhone what it is today and they made a profit? Did Apple pay you for your great ideas? And what happens with the war between the same large industries, ideas are not stolen, not to all of us it seems that other mobiles are copies of the iPhone or vice versa, that is not piracy?, and those who believe that they are the only ones to pay for The applications are wrong since it is said that more than 80% of iPhone, iPod and iPad devices do not have a jailbreak to which, logically, applications cannot be installed without going through the box, and from that we must subtract those that despite if they have jailbreak if they pay for their applications, and finally not all iTunes applications are worth 1US = € 75, are there applications for $ 20, 30, 50, or more, how can browsers be paid or not?
No Sergio, there is no talk of installous or app sync
I agree with you Sergio, the truth is that of all the people I know who have an IOS device, be it ipods, iphone, ipad, I think that of about 15 (from my school) only 2 do not have installous on their devices.
And many of them jamaaaz have touched cydia, more than to install Installous, as Sergio says, The statistics are more than clear
Amen icaldela Amen =)
GNZL ... What is not spoken? you just have to go find news and hundreds of texts appear HOSTED on this website ... or am I going crazy?
For approximately 2 years there has been no talk of piracy on this page sergio
The article is good and I agree. What is also clear is that the reason to Jailbreak is to steal as evidenced by several of those who have responded. NOT ONLY THEY STEAL BUT THEY DO NOT CARE AND RECOGNIZE IT CINICALLY
But the links still exist, which has been the same ... Anyway, I have already told you that it is not my intention to discuss this and less with you that most of the time I agree 100% with what you comment ... It is only my opinion on an issue with which I do not agree at all ... I can return a pair of pants if they do not fit me or I do not like, a kilo of apples if they are bad, a motorcycle if it does not go well ... but I can not return a film that does not like, an album whose songs do not convince me or a game / program that does not meet my expectations ... Pirate me? … Pirates those who make a trailer with the best images of their film and a sound that does not exist in the plot and then you find yourself with spectacular clutter when you go to see it at the cinema or buy the DVD, right or not? … Pirates the singers who record a disc and with a MULTI-RECORDER take out hundreds of thousands of 99,99% profit disc at a cost of 30 euros per copy and then they complain that I copy MY DISC (Legally purchased) and lend it to them to my 2000 Facebook friends (It's a saying)
Apart from the people who are bothered to pay 0 for an application (you have to be caught), there are many people like me, minors who do not have a bank account and that is their only way to get their favorite applications (and Look, I have told my parents but according to them it is "dangerous" to give the account number to Apple). If it were up to me that it bothers me instead of buying a coke to pay the developer 79 cents for an application that I really like and the convenience of how quickly the updates download from the app store and to be able to comment and others.
man, somehow apple also "steals" from developers. If I am not misinformed, apple keeps 70% of each sale in the appstore, and all they do is put the trampoline so that those updates can be sold
Sergio, you can also return an app if you don't like it or it seems like a scam.
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Ari, if you read the article it clearly states that the excuse of the card is not valid since you can buy an iTunes card in a shopping center that you pay in cash and with which you can buy applications.
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iPhone4, if you are misinformed, it is the opposite, the developer keeps 70
You can call it what you want ... but you are thieves. I wish they would put you in jail for stealing € 0,79 apps….
Do you know what happens? It is not the same. It is not the same because in the physical store you can be caught and not online. That is why it is not the same.
ps: I have not said that I do not pay or that I do.
But in many countries it is not a question of prices but of ease of payment, I mean, in some places you can only and exclusively buy with a credit card, so whoever has an iOS device and does not have a card is forced to use Installous if you want to have access to paid applications. For all these people, it is easier to jailbreak the device than to meet the requirements of a financial institution (age, income, ...)
Forget to mention that if the editors don't like your comment they delete it
See you!
@Someone Exact, I know many in my country that no matter how much they want, no matter how much they want, it is impossible for them to buy in the App Store, all because they do not have a credit card. So they turn to the only way they have left, even if it is not the right one.
more anger makes me buy a game or an app that looks good and turns out to be a birria, it is not worth saying that it can be returned, it is complicated and often not very effective ... it has to exist of everything so that they do not fall asleep in the laurels ...
Gnlz: The article was very long and I didn't read it in full hehe. Well, the truth is that I thought they were only good for iTunes (music and videos). I even thought about buying a pair to buy songs like the one about "me lo tira" by berto romero. Well, by the way, I will buy apps like WhatsApp and others. How much money is there?
15, 25 and 50
With the jailbreak, the guarantee does not go away. I restored it to legal mode and sent it to me and they replaced it with another.
jailbreak is a bitch for copyright, but a source of ideas for apple to improve its product and business.
Thanks Gnzl for the information tomorrow I buy a 25 hehe
What I have clear is that from now on I am also going to download the apps first in installous and if I like it, I will buy it. As I said before, you have to be very ratty not to pay for an app that you like and is worth half a soda (especially in bars)
I'm glad ari, you're doing well.
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Senior, you're right, if you restore no one notices that you had a jailbreak ...
It seems to me that everything that it raises is fine. and honestly, the crack games thing is vengeful. but there are also some applications that are very necessary that can be more expensive than several soft drinks.
It seems to me that the matter is badly focused, doing a disservice to the cause. Here's an example: If you go to the movies and then you crave a cookie or a soda or whatever you want, the price doesn't matter, you go to the store and buy it. But what would happen if you find two kinds of stores; one, where you have to pay even a penny, and the other, where everything is free, with the difference that there is no guarantee, however, there have never been problems of any kind with those who opted for the second store (free). Can you call this theft? the two stores are neighboring, one legal and the other illegal? If it were illegal, why would the owners of the cinema, the premises, the establishment, the business itself, not forbid it, if it is so easy to do it, they just stop them and that's it. The friend who wrote the article uses the same simplistic reasoning as the one who hacks the app. There is no theft, no fraud, or anything like it since the business owner does not bother with the alleged thieves, nor with those who steal, nor with those who make use of these copies. It seems to encourage them, since it does not place any restrictions on its services, pirated applications register with GameCenter and enjoy the same prerogatives as applications purchased from the holy holy Apple store. Nobody bothers. Obviously those who lose are the private developers, but not because of the users who download pirated applications, but because of the express fault of Apple and all its machinery that allows parallel stores for alternative downloads, without guarantee, but functional. I think that there is the fundamental problem, the criticism should be focused towards that level, and not at the level of the user who chooses the ease of a free download, comfortable and without any impediment on the part of the owner of the «circus». If the owner of the cinema, going back to the example, allows you to take all the free soft drinks, cookies, sweets, even allows you to enter for free, without any restrictions, without paying the ticket, man, anyone would think and weigh if it would be worth It is worth opting for the easy way out without guarantees, but in practice it is the same instead of paying. Asking people to correct this, and to do the justice that Apple does not do for economic convenience, seems excessive to me. No one lashes out at Saurik, the creator of the alternative "tent" who opens the door for pirates to start the party. We are not going to fall into the naivety of thinking that the majority of users who use jailbreak do so to customize their iPhones, we all know that the jailbreak responds to AppSync and Unlock and the other programs are filler. Everyone washes their hands, Saurik sends you messages from Cydia asking for moderation and good judgment, at least he is not cynical nor does he pretend to criticize you because you download an application that they provide you with the implicit permission of the owner of all the deal. Do not forget that all applications belong to Steve Jobs (Apple) and he gives you a permission to use it. So the small developers who enter the Apple business, know the conditions and are clear about the applications and the jailbreak, they know that they are going to lose, not because of the people, not because of Cydia, because of the system. imposed by Apple.
Correct frames, as you say there are applications that cost considerably more than the € 0,79 mentioned by "Julio Cesar" in his article. It will be that this man does not download more than crappy games, because of course, to which the graphic quality of the game rises a little the price shoots up, going quietly to € 5.
Then there is the case of other apps that are worth it and in my case I don't buy, given their exorbitant price, who pays € 25 worth of the «F1 Timing App» app, having others with similar functionality such as «F1 Live 2011 »Which are free?
Anyway, I think that before criticizing something so harshly, a little more research should be done about the subject and consider other points of view that could also be interesting, don't you think?
A greeting.
Very good article, maybe a little long.
Cydia and App Store are options that not only go through the economic question since in both stores we find paid and free applications.
There are those who prefer to enjoy the product as it was conceived and others choose the challenge of going against that principle.
For Argentines who DID NOT JailBreak and want to buy original in iTunes Store USA without a credit card, here are Gift Cards:http://giftcard.mercadoshops.com.ar/
Greetings.
the same ones who did not mind paying uselessly € 80 a month in calls (even if they did not call or 25% of the contracted minutes) just for taking out the "free" iphone
Stupid ...
What seems very strong to me is that, assuming that we all work, in whatever branch you dedicate yourself to, if the product you are dedicated to can be obtained for free in any way, obviously no one would pay for it, if you go to a dealer and you you carry a car by your face no one would buy cars, no bread, no tobacco, no gasoline, etc…. but we will all agree that what we do is wrong, even if you benefit.
And, as the text says, two things happen with jail, one is that we all have a small complex of diogenes and we fill the iphone with apps that, you are not interested, you may open once, but since they are free…. It is the same with music and movies, people have teras full of movies, series and music that has no life to listen to or to see, a rar of 15.000 books are downloaded that you have no life to read, but…. you got it.
people have on their iphone 5 browsers valued at € 400 in total to use one once a month when you go to the mountains… .. instead they use Whatsup all day and rejoice that they have not paid 79cents when as it says above the partner will spend € 50 or € 80 in a rate that they do not use to be able to have an iPhone….
It is a problem of «education», you have to have everything of everything and if it is free, twice as good, well nothing, let us make the mistake and screw the creator by having many things that we will never use or need, it is like the ipad 1 and ipad 2, people selling their first ipad at half price to buy the 2 and use it for the same as the 1, wasn't the one worth it ??? Yes, but I have the 2 which is the ostia, yes, if they take out the jailbreak because let's see if we are going to have to buy the apps, no, I pay € 300 more than I have to change it but I don't spend 79cents on any application .
I feel the billet, but it makes me laugh ...
I do not know why they insist that Cydia or Saurik promote piracy that is false and not because it has any particular interest, but I think we all know that when you install the repositories that have applications that are somehow paid either in AppStore or in the same Cydia and there they are cracked a message appears:
«Source Warning
This repository has been reported by the community to be illegally redistributing copyrighted works.
We cannot stop you from using it, but we can (and do) recommend moral introspection and caution.
Please also keep in mind that illegal packages from untrusted sources are often outdated and unstable. »
That we are not responsible enough or does Cydia or Saurik force us to press continue instead of canceling?
Curious to see how we continually complain about laws and prohibitions that impose us and limit our freedom, but when we are interested we blame pirates because they do not put a heavy hand on pirates.
It is a moral thing of each one, just like when you go to a supermarket and do not put a pack of gum in your pocket.
Personally, when I have doubts, I first download it from installous to test it, but whenever an application can be useful to me or that it has simply made me have a good time and I think it is worth supporting the developer, I buy it without hesitation, just like I also support a service like spotify of which I am premium, it is about not throwing stones at ourselves and supporting the ideas / formats that we like the most.
I hope that this article makes many people reconsider.
Stop talking about jailbreak and installous on your website to see who enters.
After all, you are the ones who taught us to do this.
By the way, since my first iPhone I have spent € 400 in the AppStore.
If you do not want to be robbed in the store ... put a security or surveillance systems
@regards
This opinion article is great morally and ethically speaking, the only bad thing is that the author is nothing more than an interested party (probably a programmer) who regrets not being able to rot with money making one or two applications (the second would be to end up even more rotten) . In the same way that this man is interested in earning more money than he earns, I am interested in spending much less money than I do. These same people whom he calls "pirates of 0'79" (and I am easily one of them, although I do not see myself reflected in that vomit of words that make up your opinion piece, far from it) also contribute to the economic development of that industry (which by the way, is already quite developed) in one way or another. Well, that no one intends to win by criticizing the actions of others, more than they earn and less by criticizing under the guise of ethics and morals, for that we already have our politicians. For my part, I will continue the same and without feeling offended when people with a lot of freedom of expression (which I think is great and is what I want for anyone, nobody misunderstand me) take advantage of it to throw feces on the heads of the others, without rhyme or reason, to earn € 0 more, I have to say that it is a more than mediocre action. I will continue to be a pirate of 79'0, 79, 5 or the money that is already a lot of honor!
I totally agree that the software does not only grow like mushrooms and that it would have to be paid for, but if a coffee, a parking lot or a drink could be obtained for free, why are we going to pay for it? And let's not get into the magic of the statistics that the average app is worth 0.79 because there are many that are worth more than they cost.
I hallucinate with you thieves, you do it wrong, but not only that, you gloat, you feel proud ...
The day they rob you, at home or at work, I hope you think that the thief is very proud, let's see if you like it.
Paco, I hope that one day they really steal from you, rape your sisters, mother, dog, cat, plants, PC and closest relatives before your very eyes .. "Let's see if it's cool !?" I really don't want it, but nice comparisons colleague .. A hug and good mental health!
It seems to me the least scary that, if your mobile is stolen in the park or in the subway, it is that the thief is an undesirable, let's see if they catch him and package him, on the other hand, in the software, the undesirable is the one who pays the price of The applications and the welcome is the one that downloads them for free and spends two hundred hours searching in forums, pages, download servers ……. what difference there are??? you need a tomtom on the iphone and the chorizo on the street needs your iphone to be able to use the tomtom right ????
go with double standards…. the worst is still that we are not aware that we are doing something wrong, because everyone in your town hits his wife does not make hitting women okay, well this…. idem.
I, without problem, pay for Spotify, pay for Weather applications, pay for photos app, pay for movies and videos in iTunes, pay for games and even pay for things that are in Cydia.
What I find embarrassing is that we cannot test things before paying for them and what seems like the last straw is paying for app- games that are worth absolutely nothing, both in the app store and in Cydia.
As long as this exists ... then to hack!
What to read !! ... that each one do what they want, for that there is the Jailbreak, to have the freedom to do what each one wants, or perhaps they are not tired of saying that thanks to the jailbreak there is applications on the iPhone THAT APPLE DOES NOT ACCEPT…. Let's see who is the handsome guy who has jailbroken his iPhone and buys the Tomtom application… and if there is someone who does it, SLEEP YOUR EGGS!… but let those who don't they do. Always the same story, I imagine the typical GEEK who carries his jailbroken iPhone and boasting that he buys all the applications in the AppStore, it seems perfect kid !, but always with the same theme, LEAVE THOSE WHO DON'T BUY THEM ALONE, HAVING THEM FREE SHOP !, We are thieves ?, Well, okay !, and what more idiotic examples of the article, that is not an article or nothing, that we put gasoline in the car and then we do not buy a game of 0.79 ?, Well, get free transport! Let's see who would go by car then, but of course, the same geek would be riding in his car criticizing those who travel for free. That we don't pay for the green or blue zone?… COLLEAGUE, in my city (Barcelona) you pay to park on the street and in the car parks, GIVE US PARKING FOR FREE, let's see who pays for parking! …………… .. hypocrites !
I have jailbroken it to have a theme and to have sbsettings, and I have bought apps from the app store at mansalva, including tomtom iberia, and cydia apps like infinifolders and lockinfo. I must be an idiot. If something is worth money, you can buy it or not, but if we pirate, in the end not even God will make applications for the love of art.
anyado: I claim that they let the apps evaluate at least a day or two before paying for them
Sirs. What is the problem with piracy? This is a vicious circle and you exist because of this, and if companies were different in their charges, everything would be different, society is bored of paying for everything and seeing how a few make fortunes, long live free things because with the fact of paying for the Internet, paying for your phone plan and the device you use, you are the defenders of € 0,79 for me a reasonable value and more than fair is € 0,10
You know I'm in the jalibreak club The best free games also many times if you buy it, it comes with an error and then you regret it and it's worse, so fuck yourselves