i am a bit mixed about the ‘jailbreaking.’ on the one hand i wish i did not have to do it; on the other the hacker in me kind of like the challange and exclustivity of being a member of the ‘jailbreak club.’ as much as geeks and hackers love to dream of ‘open devices’ the reality as long as they are busy with hacks is that it does not matter since they will simply open up the closed devices.

it is a bit ironic though that apple coumputer was founded by a couple homebrew computer club members who were in the bussiness of building and selling ‘blue boxes’ to hack the phone company before they went ligit, and is now the company with the most closed and locked down platform.