Cruel Apple Strategy : Jailbreak iphone Firmware 3.0

When it comes to security, apple is an connoisseur and boasts the most secured operating system ever. Security has been given very high preference in apple’s products and we are quite aware that the engineers at Cupertino have been very innovative and sturdy in building secured software.

Have iphones been deliberately loosely packed to be jail broke by hackers?

Apple announces iphone OS 3.0

Steve Jobs signed an 5 year contract for exclusive rights for AT&T and with the craze of the iphone soaring like wildfire, AT&T has certainly benefited from the deal. Apple has certainly had the lion’s share of the profits, arising out of the deal, but AT&T has managed to pocket some money, in a high volume game. Many critics have written about the possibility of interim CEO Tim Cook, considering Verizon wireless and ditching AT&T. Verizon is the second largest carrier in the Unites States, after AT&T, and a magic deal from apple will probably be received with a warm welcome by Verizon. Apple has almost sailed through half the journey and breaking a 5 year deal with AT&T is certainly not in the minds of Steve Jobs.

Large Customer Base

So, it is quite clearly evident that apple would lose a lot of customers, if the iphone was made extremely secure, thus making the jail break improbable. A lot of iphone users in the United States are under other carriers and the number of international users is increasing everyday and is no longer a small percentage. Engadget has a list of 32 countries, where the iphone was being used, and the list is growing everyday, since Apple is expanding the iphone territory across the globe.

Apple’s Solution :

Apple is known for the way it executes things and the iphone security might be one more of its cruel strategies. By making the iphone software not extremely secure, the deal with AT&T holds extremely good. In fact, Apple takes some considerable effort to make iphone OS secure, so it takes a little while for hackers to jailbreak the OS. By doing this, Apple is allowing a lot of users to use the iphone, who probably insist on staying in other carriers, or being forced to use other carriers, in case of international users.

OS Beta Releases :

How many products does apple release in beta? While builds of latest operating system (leopard) are being seeded only to the privileged and loyal apple community users, iphone OS 3.0 is being given away for developers in the beta stage itself. Credit the hackers for breaking in to the iphone 1.0, after working for a long time, but how long do you think it took the hackers to break into iphone firmware 2.0? Thanks to the beta release, the firmware 2.0 was broken 3 months ahead of release. With the app store development in progress, Apple made it very clear that all existing users would need to get to the latest firmware, and without hassles.

Legal Issues :

Apple was once quoted in a interview stating that jail breaking the Iphone firmware was a crime, but Apple does want the small percentage of users to jailbreak and does not seem to be caring much about it. While Verizon boasts a better network quality, Apple could not have got Verizon signing in for this lucrative deal, like with AT&T, whose network quality has sometimes even parred users from taking up the magic device.

There are a lot of projects wide out in the internet, which work on the Iphone firmware and these hackers are finding the new iphone firmwares easier to break through. Yellow snow might go obsolete in future, with users themselves breaking the firmware.

Iphone OS 3.0 has been released and how soon do you think is it going to be jail broken? Let us know your thoughts on the apple strategy.

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