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mikeash on Sept 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The iPhone 5 has reportedly been jailbroken

If that were the case, why wouldn't they make it easier?

r00fus on Sept 22, 2012 | [–]

2 major reasons:

The content industry

Segmenting markets geopraphically

_qucc on Sept 22, 2012 | | [–]

They don't trust Cydia, which is understandable.

mikeash on Sept 22, 2012 | | [–]

That's completely contrary to the idea that Apple is deliberately letting people circumvent the lockdown, though.

ktizo on Sept 22, 2012 | [–]

Marketing via nerdsniping. http://xkcd.com/356/

It has to be a challenge to make it interesting.

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