PwnageTool vs. Apple arms race

Jailbreak but keep using their software?: It seems a strange concept to me. Jailbreaking an iTouch or iPhone means you can use innumerable and usually superior products to manage your hardware. Why go back to using iTunes?

On the escalation front, someone needs to explain to Apple that it is truly a losing proposition. So long as they want valid users to be able to use their phone, they can't make it impossible to reverse engineer how it works. That's why DRM is dying. That's why MaybePlays died, all the vein useless attempts at catching the "bad guys" let to ever increasing annoyance, and software bugs for the legit customers.

Anyway, back to my original point, jailbreak your phone, then use whatever you want, or heck, install other OSes and be free of everything. That is all 100% legal (per the DMCA), but don't expect (for now, Apple hasn't learned it is throwing good money after bad), don't expect it to continue to work with Apple software.

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