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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, @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!