| > If they would band together, why not just make a new phone? Because it is much easier to write jailbreaking software, than it is to build an entirely new phone. > since apple could release a new firmware to block your OS People have been jailbreaking phones for years. That is always the game of cat and mouse. And people have continue to get around it, even though they don't have large amount of resources, like big companies would. But, furthermore, if there is a large enough userbase, that is jailbreaking their phone, then it would cause Apple a large amount of economic damage, if they decide to screw over this critical mass of users. If 30% of Apple's users, would get their phone bricked after an Apple update, then Apple would probably be cautious about doing that. But I guess it is hypothetically possible that Apple would be willing to brick 30% of their customers phones (if that was the critical mass). That would certainly hurt their customer friendly image though, and it would cause Apple billions of dollars in damages. > but the market solution would be for people Putting lots of resources into jailbreaking phones, and convincing a lot of users to do it, such that it would cause Apple a lot of damage, if they stopped it, is also a free market solution. That is a free market solution that is much easier to do, than building a new phone. |