They are the profound engine of our consumer society: the human sheep. They just do as the commercial says to do. The same that never question or push the any boundaries. They have been here, they are here and will still be here. We need them.

So i think that the app store as a bright future. Don’t get me wrong i also use app from the app store. But i don’t see why this should be under the total control of Apple when we see and know that there is still a huge mercantile vision deciding who gets in the app store.

I don’t believe that a brand should impose so much restriction on his product. You can easily argue by saying that i am not oblige to buy one.
Granted! But what if apply the same concept to other product. If i buy a GM car i can only gaz at Shell and use a very specific type of fuel?

Ok, i’m getting away from your question here. So no i don’t think it will such a great impact as having your app in the app store is also somewhat of a recognition or seal of quality (even though it is not really). The App still has a bright future.

And knowing Apple, they must already have something new up their sleeve.

After all they are the ones loosing money with the jailbreak hack. Not Apple. In fact being able to jailbreak an iPhone must boost their sales by a huge %.

So Apple is probably trying to look good towards these guys but must be happy to have genius from the iPhone Dev-Team for example, jailbreaking iPhones.

It’s common business thinking. unfortunately money talks in this world. And if you want to make the shareholders happy, “a company do what a company got to do”. And with the announcement of their quarterly profit early this week. Shareholders must be very happy. And i bet jailbreaked iPhones have a lot to do with that.
Jailbreak iPhones also mean more sales in the app store.

I would be curious to see a graph with the iphones sales numbers compared to the number of registration to these “exclusive” cell phone providers.

And like we have been seeing for decades in the computer world, once there is a new protection, security etc…. you bet someone will find the way to bypass these.

I think “hackers” (white, black, red or rainbow) are actually needed in the development of computer technologies. As they are pushing developers to always improve their products.