I think you are muddying the topic with your links.
The kill switch exists, very true, but other stores have it just the same: in particular Android Marketplace has a kill switch too.
The copyright submission does show that Apple considers jailbreaking illegal, but that was NOT what people are discussing. Everyone agrees that is Apple's stance. The question is if Apple should "look the other way", with a camp saying they already seem not to care much and others saying they are doing everything they can to stop jailbreaking. So again: nobody is arguing about Apple's official stance, but how hard they should pursue it.
Finally the recent patent is just that: a patent. It is not something that has actually been implemented, and we don't even know if they want to implement it. But the bottom line is that in a discussion if Apple has or has not fight jailbreaking, we are talking 2007-now. Arguing that Apple may in the _future_ implement something like that would be bad but not relevant.
That is not to say I think your arguments may be wrong. I agree in the future Apple may fight jailbreaking more strongly, we don't know. But the discussion is not about how likely it is or isn't a certain future, but how Apple has acted _so_far_.
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I think you are muddying the topic with your links.
The kill switch exists, very true, but other stores have it just the same: in particular Android Marketplace has a kill switch too.
The copyright submission does show that Apple considers jailbreaking illegal, but that was NOT what people are discussing. Everyone agrees that is Apple's stance. The question is if Apple should "look the other way", with a camp saying they already seem not to care much and others saying they are doing everything they can to stop jailbreaking. So again: nobody is arguing about Apple's official stance, but how hard they should pursue it.
Finally the recent patent is just that: a patent. It is not something that has actually been implemented, and we don't even know if they want to implement it. But the bottom line is that in a discussion if Apple has or has not fight jailbreaking, we are talking 2007-now. Arguing that Apple may in the _future_ implement something like that would be bad but not relevant.
That is not to say I think your arguments may be wrong. I agree in the future Apple may fight jailbreaking more strongly, we don't know. But the discussion is not about how likely it is or isn't a certain future, but how Apple has acted _so_far_.