Comments on: iPhone Pirate App Software Nuked Over Legal Concerns

By: Fugasmic

Fugasmic — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:55:17 +0000

“super-cool device” – If only you’d known before writing the article, lol. Just goes to show you the assumption that people make about all things Apple.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:21:08 +0000

super cool, my ass. the iPad is the biggest joke of this decade!

By: Your me and Im her

Your me and Im her — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:26:28 +0000

I like all and leave myself behind

By: T

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:18:38 +0000

I had a dream. Ubuntu on iPad. :)

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:49:05 +0000

Once again the DMCA earns lawyer-weasels big bucks and stops development and inovation.
No wonder the US is going down ..

By: bryanskrantz

bryanskrantz — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:43:30 +0000

I don’t care really. I use the iPhone PC Suit for all my iPhone needs.

By: Obedient

Obedient — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:37:48 +0000

Oh! I am sure the program will still become “miraculously” available somewhere in one of the countless torrent sites.
We pirates have a very generous community!

By: lverona

lverona — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:35:09 +0000

I must say that all of this is becoming uninteresting. I mean, iPod was cool. iPhone they managed to make a beg event out of.
But this? iPad? The reaction is like: “Oh, another revolutionary device, yawn”.

I think it is obvious to even regular people that these kind of products get useful only after they are hacked. I think the reason most people do not care about the problems of free and non-free software is because they used hacked and “pirated” software anyway.

Me, after having switched to GNU/Linux, I noticed all the proprietary situation seems even more weird than before. The notion that someone gives you a closed box is so unnatural.

There is some arrogance in that, so it seems – like, we will now make you happy, we will give you what you want – iPad! Wow. They think they know what we want. But they don’t. They know what will sell. Feel the difference.

By: ????

???? — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:32:24 +0000

@ 18 your a idiot theres no need to change hardware now a days just custome firmware is needed therefore you fail…

By: Unauthorized Content Consumer

Unauthorized Content Consumer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:49:52 +0000

Apple put a proprietary processor in its iTampon…er…iPod. This means that it would be impossible to hack, and Apple only wants you to run software that they can profit from, not what you want to run possibly including illegal software. The proprietary chip will make it unattractive to bother hacking because not only will it be difficult for the average hacker, but also very expensive making it hardly worth it when you can do whatever you want with a netbook.

Alas, I’m sure eventually someone will find some weakness in the OS/Apps where it might be possible to softmod the system, but of course the iPad will be patched regularly to remove any mods. The CPU is hard coded so I think it would make hacking it practically impossible.

I suppose if you had the financial and technical resources to completely replace the proprietary processor you can do it. Of course thanks to DMCA you can’t do it legally, and it would cost hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of dollars to develop such a chip. Why bother? Stick with an iPod Touch and Netbook. They cost about the same as a top of the line iPad but at least you can do whatever you want with them.

By: Drunken Economist

Drunken Economist — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:36:42 +0000

Jailbreak apps are where it’s at, not cracked apps.

I REALLY LIKE being able to download torrents from Mobile Safari from my iPhone and then bopping them to my remote machine a couple hundred miles away. All from the iPhone. With Jailbroken tweaks that are not cracked by whelps like Crapulous.

How? Well for ones I didn’t dick over the iPhone App authors over the price of a cup of coffee. Some of these guys are the same as us, and trying to pay for their education.. and they were more than helpful with me to set up what I wanted with their Apps.

The other thing is that cracked apps are sometimes MADE UNSTABLE by the crack. Diddle the wrong hex, and there you go. Other than that…

http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/2010/01/dear-saurik-and-iphone-devteam-stop.html

and

http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/2010/01/thieves-liars-and-mafiaa-dicking.html

COOOL apps, as in pay or donate; GrIP, Prowl, Jaadu VNC, iStat, Shovebox, pay and talk with the devs…

Just my 2 yen.

-Drunken Economist
http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/drunk_economist

By: Issinoho

Issinoho — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:19:16 +0000

@alky

It means millions of apps have been installed overall, obviously

By: Sendaii

Sendaii — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:59:25 +0000

Installous/Install0us never worked that well for me anyway, and I have little use for cracked apps. Homebrew is where it’s at :)

By: theo

theo — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:19:47 +0000

I guess everyone forgot about Installous 2.0.4, which is still amazing.

By: Alky

Alky — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:05:57 +0000

There are only 120,000 iphone apps total. Not millions.

By: Ninja

Ninja — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:24:02 +0000

I personally think iphone isn’t that good.. It’s more customizable with apps and that’s the only good thing about it…

I used one for a while and I think my Arena does better..

By: duane

duane — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:04:14 +0000

Correction: that’s $25,000.

By: duane

duane — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:03:36 +0000

This just in: RIAA have offered Jammie Thomas an out-of-court settlement for $27,000. She’s rejecting it (good girl).

Source: http://tinyurl.com/ye77y4v

Apologies for hijacking the comments, btw.

By: Quartz

Quartz — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:07:44 +0000

apps – appliances in the above post, some of you are not known for your brain power..lol

My apologies to those of you who are.

By: Quartz

Quartz — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:06:19 +0000

What Apples are not in a rush to inform anyone is how all these fancy apps are built in China by underpaid workers in sweat-shop factory conditions, if you want to help the US economic position stop diverting money to a country that has missiles aimed at you still and get some local US folks back into work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:30:24 +0000

Paying a little fortune for a device that look cool but does not do much and conspire against me for the benefit of Apple?

Hell NO!

By: Pilgrimman

Pilgrimman — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:54:29 +0000

I saw an error in “there are already millions of individuals desperate to get their hands on this super-cool device. ”

it should read

“Millions of lamers desperate to fill steve jobs pockets in hopes to slurp on his meatsicle…and playe with a crappy device.’

- I spotted this error too!

By: nah in baltimore

nah in baltimore — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:05:17 +0000

I saw an error in “there are already millions of individuals desperate to get their hands on this super-cool device. ”

it should read

“Millions of lamers desperate to fill steve jobs pockets in hopes to slurp on his meatsicle…and playe with a crappy device.’

Anyhow, if this dude isnt up to it, it’s his perogative. Too bad he just cant release the source and have users build their own app…. Im still holding out for an Android…so no loss too me.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:38:04 +0000

Install0us 2 never worked for me, the regular Installous did however.

Can’t say I’m sad since the cracked apps wasn’t really something that I needed, but just something to try the games before buying them.

By: omfg

omfg — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:19:53 +0000

Install0us was just a alternative .. so no biggie

By: www.eZee.se

www.eZee.se — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:36:39 +0000

The only way i would consider buying the new apple tablet would be if running pirated stuff is possible… if not, I’ll leave it to the apple fanbois to buy Apples DRMware

By: UK sweet guy

UK sweet guy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:34:05 +0000

I love when things like this happen. Go anti-P2P, it’s a way of lyfe. :)

By: MM99

MM99 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:33:43 +0000

It’s too bad Install0us 3 won’t be released….but hope that “Installr” will be better..