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by gdee 5892 days ago
>> It just doesn't want them on the app store.

Where else exactly could they go?

>> Forcing Apple to repeal 3.3.1 doesn't allow offending software to be built and sold (as it already can be), it forces Apple to stock its shelves with it

Those two things are the same, by Apple's design.

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Cydia or the other jailbreak market (can't recall the name).

Those certainly aren't remotely equivalent options, but my point was just that 3.3.1 is about Terms of Use for the App Store, not an attempt to legally stifle an existing secondary market as with car parts and ink cartridges.

It's thus a qualitatively different situation.

More relevant precedent might be found by looking at other situations where service providers have added terms to limit allowed devices/tools.