Great example of a false dichotomy. It's not _if_ Apple if fighting jailbreaking but _how_much_ they are.
Apple definitely goes for the low hanging fruits: any avenue that is relatively simple to fix gets fixed. And obviously anything that is a serious security flaw gets fixed.
And, despite how much the hackers may hate it, Apple has (and has always had) a philosophy where they do not care much for side-effects, or annoying a minor niche of jailbreakers. What I mean is that, if you find a way to hack your way around Apple's system, Apple doesn't care, but at the same time if/when Apple is going to upgrade the system or make changes you can't expect _any_ effort by Apple to not disturb your hack. That means they don't care about downgrading, and they don't care if an upgrade makes the jailbreak not work: that's your problem.
How much further than that they go? So far I haven't see much. They could have really pursued it further. And maybe one day they will, but not so far.
If they fix a security hole deliberately, or change something in the firmware that stops the break from working, that does not mean they are fighting jailbreaking.
And there has been no evidence to suggest that they are going actively doing this, thought they still might be.
I suspect that so long as jail breaking stays at or below 10% of iPhones, Apple will tolerate it. If there is anything which starts pushing jail breaking towards being the norm rather than the exception I suspect we'd see them increase their efforts to prevent it.
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Great example of a false dichotomy. It's not _if_ Apple if fighting jailbreaking but _how_much_ they are.
Apple definitely goes for the low hanging fruits: any avenue that is relatively simple to fix gets fixed. And obviously anything that is a serious security flaw gets fixed.
And, despite how much the hackers may hate it, Apple has (and has always had) a philosophy where they do not care much for side-effects, or annoying a minor niche of jailbreakers. What I mean is that, if you find a way to hack your way around Apple's system, Apple doesn't care, but at the same time if/when Apple is going to upgrade the system or make changes you can't expect _any_ effort by Apple to not disturb your hack. That means they don't care about downgrading, and they don't care if an upgrade makes the jailbreak not work: that's your problem.
How much further than that they go? So far I haven't see much. They could have really pursued it further. And maybe one day they will, but not so far.
If they fix a security hole deliberately, or change something in the firmware that stops the break from working, that does not mean they are fighting jailbreaking.
And there has been no evidence to suggest that they are going actively doing this, thought they still might be.
Agreed.
I suspect that so long as jail breaking stays at or below 10% of iPhones, Apple will tolerate it. If there is anything which starts pushing jail breaking towards being the norm rather than the exception I suspect we'd see them increase their efforts to prevent it.