Apple is pushing ahead with a lawsuit against Corellium, in what is being labelled as a move to end jailbreaking.
The tech giant began its legal battle in August, claiming the firm profits from "perfect replicas" of iOS.
Apple has now amended its lawsuit, alleging copyright infringement.
Corellium's CEO responded in an open letter, insisting developers and jailbreakers should be "concerned" by the move.
[...] Corellium's chief executive, Amanda Gorton, issued a statement on Sunday in response to Apple's latest claims of copyright infringement.
She criticised Apple's targeting of the jailbreaking community, and suggested the company has failed to acknowledge that it has directly benefited from users of its platform in the past.
"Apple is asserting that anyone who provides a tool that allows other people to jailbreak, and anyone who assists in creating such a tool, is violating the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)," said Ms Gorton.
"They have directly benefited from the jailbreak community in a number of ways. Many of the features of iOS originally appeared as jailbreak tweaks and were copied by Apple."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @11:34AM
,,, your Crapple!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @02:34PM
Apple's business plan was to make good stuff that folks liked.
That includes actual security, not the illusion of security.
That's really hard, so it is good for Apple for folks to find their bugs.
That's why there are bug bounty programs.
This seems kind of a reverse bug bounty.
As in don't do good and we won't sue you.
Hope it works for them, but it seems likely to need a few tweaks.
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/piranha.php [montypython.net]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @05:43PM
She's throwing this whole "they have directly benefited from the jailbreak community in a number of ways" as if that is worth anything...
Apple is a bit like Disney when it comes to their IP: they've always been clear that they don't like anyone even looking funnily at it. This company clearly does so and got away with it for a long time. Now they got caught and are playing the "but you got something out of it too" card.
Pathetic (and I don't even like Apple)...
This is in no way different from a company with a crappy business model complaining that it's business model isn't working.
Well, boo fucking hoo... that is not anyone's problem but your own!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ilsa on Thursday January 02 2020, @06:51PM (1 child)
When I got my first iphone, I immediately jailbreak it, so I could install feature that Apple didn't provide. However, over time I learned some very valuable things, the most important being how much I value stability in a mission critical device.
The jailbreak ecosystem itself is horribly poorly thought out and maintained. Developers upload software to repos and then forget about it. The repo owners do nothing to verify that the code is good, organize things effectively, or give any kind of version compatibility notices. I don't need access to 2 thousand different poorly designed themes for my phone, yet I had to dig through them anyway because the categorization was so abysmal. It was clear that the overwhelming majority of jailbreakers had no other desire than to
dick around withcustomize their phones and nothing else.The whole thing is very anarchic and "let the user beware" couldn't be more true. Backups were critical cause even if you knew what you were doing there was still a good chance that you could install something that broke your phone so badly you had to restore. Even if you don't, the management effort required is grossly disproportionate to the value you get.
The few good tools I really wanted and used quickly became moot because Apple ended up adding some variation of those features to the core OS. Or they stopped working with an OS update so you had to keep your phone OS held back for months if not years if you really wanted that feature.
The direction that Apple has gone with their control-freakery is frustrating, but at the end of the day I need a device that works, and the effort and risks involved with jailbreaking your phone flat out outweight the benefits.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 03 2020, @05:58AM
Why are you jailbreaking it if you want a device that work as advertised? Why are you complaining it might break if you do something unsupported to it? Why even jump through all the loops to jailbreak it if you don't want the risk?