> I never understood using Cydia as a tool to save a tiny amount of money at the expense of the developers. I've seen posts bitching about $2 apps being expensive so they pirate it.
Amen! The first time I read a review that said $10 was way too much
just to review potentially useful software I realized I wasn't in
Kansas anymore. Don't people realize how much high quality software
development costs? I'm not lily white about this. Not recently but I
have pirated software that I would never buy because I couldn't afford
it, or at least that was my rationalization. The pain threshold that
has tempted me was usually in the $500-$1000 range. For example before
GIMP high end image processing software tempted me. (Which I suppose
shows how old I am. GIMP has been around for quite a while.) And even
then I agonized over the ethics. There is no justification, or even
hand waving rationalization for stealing a useful $2 product. People
who do that are just scum bag thieves. They don't just steal from the
developer, they steal from the rest of the user community who does pay
by taking away from future development and support.
If I ever jailbreak my iPhone it will be to write software for my own
use to run on my personal property that Apple won't let me write, not
to steal from honest developers creating useful software; or to buy
similar software written by someone else.
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