open platform.. open Source...
Who has it .. .Who allows it .. and what it means to you .. the consumer... The user level .>>>
Lets face it ... no matter what fancy alien Words might be used to describe open Source it narrows down to this.
Companies such as apple for Example,Release there iphone With what has now been called "Closed restricted platform:.
meaning that only programs (apps) that Apple sees Fit are approved to be released which in Return allows you To download and buy them from the app store.
and yes there are some great Free apps on the appstore but lets Face it Why not have even more of a choice? (open Source?)
Why Should What We want be picked by a Company?
after all We paid money that we worked For to be able to call this device our own correct?
There are Many Reason that some would argue in saying that this Allows the apps to always be "top notch" since they are "hand picked" by apple.
But lets stop and look at it from The Vintendo Point of view...
This is what i would call the biggest "catch 22" Ever created in the history of electronics..
As most of you might know there is something that can be done to all iphones Called "Jailbreaking"
This Simple process allows for you the end user to take full control of the iphone and allow it to run in addition to the 150k apps on the appstore and additional 50k plus apps on what is Known as "Cydia".
Lets Put it like this ... Cyida Is the "open source" version of the app store.
The only major difference here is that Apple has no control at all Over What is on there.
You Will Find that there are apps that will enable features on your phone that you always wondered why they Were not enabled in the First place. as well as thousands of different themes that will fully make The iphone into a custom original personal device.
Some of the features on here such as picture messaging was released months and months before apple ever pushed there newer 3g model with MMS.
With Each update that apple releases They attempt to stop the installation of Such software on to the iphone.
It Has Come to be known As "The cat and mouse Game" online.
With Each Exploit that is patched the So-called "dev" Team Exploits another way to execute What they call "jailbreak". Which in Returns allows them To run "open source". (cydia)
ok So Are you still With me here??
So you:
Plug your iphone into your Computer..
Run Software that "jailbreaks" The iphone.
Iphone now Runs "open source" Software. And Cydia becomes Your New "appstore".
So With that said ..
Who Wants to "jailbreak" there iphone?
Do you feel that After you have Paid for something that it is your right to be able to use it in whatever way you feel to?
Of course there are plenty Of negative aspects of this such as being able to run pirated apps on your i-devices...
but the real thing here is
Who should be making that choice... You .. or a company?
With these Devices now having become "standard" in life. being that ist in our homes.. cars....schools...tvs...pockets...
We need to be aware and to make sure that these machines don't become a way for companies to feed us exactly what they want and then drain us of our hard earned money every few months for "upgrades" that are barely cosmetic...
Anyone care to chime in with there 2 cents?
The whole "piracy" is the biggest front since a mafia run deli shop...
yeah its there.. yeah its a problem .. but it also brings in ALOT of money "under the table" For alot of these companies.
Over the next months we will bring you into the under ground world of "Modding & Hacking".
Some Facts that you never knew existed As well As a few things we found shocking in this "war against piracy". and What the "real" meaning of "copyright" really is.
Welcome To The internet. We know you'll come back real Soon.
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