The Real Cost of Using Jailbreak Apps for Piracy

The Real Cost of Using Jailbreak Apps for Piracy

This weekend has been released Jailbreak for iPhone OS 5.1.1 compatible with almost all IOS devices. The publication of the new Jailbreak has opened old debates about the legality of this change, based mainly on the use which, unfortunately, many people do it: piracy of applications. Nevertheless, the jailbreak is 100% LEGAL.

The community Jailbreak has always advocated its use for functions that Apple does not include by default, having zero tolerance on the issue of piracy of applications. The fact is that this hack is seriously detrimental to both developers and the community. So many developers have come his way Jailbreak to show their disagreement with the "theft" of their applications. Logical and natural.

No excuses

We have always heard many excuses to try to justify why some copy almost everything that falls into our hands. Some like that all software should be free and others such as the price is excessive because the industry is used.

But what if these excuses did not have merit?. Look for example the case of the App Store from Apple. Virtually all applications are priced between 0.79 and 4.99 €, with few exceptions. Another thing is the ease of use of the store, with the ability to download the application you have ever bought since we want to keep our purchases App Store.

With this in mind, does it really worth making the hack Jailbreak for these applications?

The cost for Developers

The cost of developing an application for IOS devices is quite high and selling it, as a rule, is the only source of income for their creators. In addition to the development itself, the launch of an application involves investment in marketing, licensing, software, servers and so on.

According to a recently published study, 60% of IOS application developers do not even cover costs . Using Jailbreak to "steal" these applications can lead to many developers stop programming and abandon their projects, staying well "hung" with that application that we like because we cease to have updates and support.

The cost for Apple

We might think that Apple does not hurt to use Jailbreak. They keep selling more and more devices, but this is not entirely correct.

If Apple does not use means to stop this application "fraudulent" developers will schedule for IOS and opt for other platforms, because no one works for art's sake.

What Apple can do to try to stop piracy? So for example we have two services that are used online, such as icloud and Game Center. Apple knows what applications you have bought, so if it detects that an application has not purchased using icloud or Game Center knows that this application is pirated. A good measure would cut the use of cloud services to these applications.

Perhaps this is not the solution to all evils, because it could remain offline. But the chances of losing the network would certainly buy more than one application instead of downloading it. Yes, this may be somewhat complicated to implement by Apple, do not know, but it is a cost to bear.

The cost for Jailbreak Reputation

Not all users of the jailbreak is done with the intention to pirate applications. Indeed, I dare say that most have never installed a pirated application. The Jailbreak is a great tool to add functionality to our IOS devices. Some of these features have been implemented by Apple itself when it has launched new versions of the operating system.

The proof that the community building on the Jailbreak is much more important point is that the vast majority of applications in Cydia also have a cost.

But unfortunately the Jailbreak is known for what is known, and this bad reputation is paid by the developer community finally doing Jailbreak applications.

Cost to User

It is clear that with this article I will not convince anyone not to use the jailbreak to install apps downloaded illegally. If you perform this practice you know you're hurting developers, tarnishing the reputation and damaging to Jailbreak iPhone OS platform.

Have you ever stopped to think that also you harm users? If you're using pirated applications are making the job of developers is useless and that they leave arise. What if anyone would like to schedule for IOS because they make money? We would run applications. This will be the ultimate cost would have to pay users.

Conclusion

I will not give the talk, you just say, "buy the applications you like". If we do we will be supporting and facilitating developers every day we have more and better applications. As I said earlier article IOS applications rarely exceed € 4.99, can cost the same as going out for a couple of beers.

This can be a Jailbreak "clean" and to use that the creators want us to do it, to improve system functions and not to pirate applications.

Remember: Jailbreak YES, but with head

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