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Across the ocean, in California, Apple's headquarters.

Jobs has been upset lately.

Those Doggy Days Jailbreak Crack Group!

THE IPHONE-3G WAS RELEASED IN THE MI MARKET AT THE BEGINNING OF APRIL, AND BEGAN TO ACCEPT PRE-ORDERS IN THE EUROPEAN MARKET AFTER A DELAY OF ABOUT A WEEK, AND ENTERED THE CONTRACT MACHINE LAYOUT OF UNICOM IN HUAXIA BEFORE APRIL 20, AND THEN DEPLOYED SOME MORE SCATTERED NATIONAL MARKETS - ABOUT A MONTH BEFORE AND AFTER, TO COMPLETE ITS GLOBAL RELEASE LAYOUT.

Although it is not "global synchronization", it is a great improvement. YOU MUST KNOW THAT WHEN THE FIRST IPHONE WAS RELEASED IN THE SUMMER VACATION OF 07, THE FIRST GENERATION OF THE IPHONE DID NOT GO OUT OF NORTH AMERICA FOR HALF A YEAR.

FOR NO OTHER REASON, THE IPHONE SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEM AT THAT TIME WAS TOO WEAK, AND USERS SIMPLY DID NOT HAVE MANY "GAMES AND APPLICATIONS THAT MUST BE PLAYED WITH THE IPHONE".

NOW, WITH THE LAYOUT OF IPHONE-3G AND APP-STORE, THE IOS ECOSYSTEM HAS FINALLY HAD SOME TREND OF RADICAL REVITALIZATION.

However, those dog-day jailbreak crack groups simply don't give Apple a respite.

ONLY ON APRIL 15, ONLY ABOUT TWO WEEKS AFTER IT WAS LISTED, THE CRACKING TEAM MADE A TOOL TO ROOT THE IPHONE SYSTEM AND PROVIDED JAILBREAK SERVICES. FROM NOW ON, CONSUMERS WHO HAVE BOUGHT IPHONE-3G CAN USE JAILBREAK TOOLS TO BREAK THROUGH APPLE'S MONOPOLY ON THE APP-STORE AS LONG AS THEY WANT, BYPASSING THE APP-STORE AND FREELY INSTALLING MOBILE APPS PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTIES.

At that time, Jobs was angry about this issue at an internal discussion meeting, and scolded those executives who did not recognize the seriousness of the problem:

"What is the biggest core common interest of our company in wooing most mobile software developers? What are our core advantages over other open system smartphone solutions?

It is our Apple that can conduct content review on the access software on the APP-STORE, so as to block pirated and cracked games and application software, and force users to pay for genuine software!

Therefore, software developers who are deeply affected by piracy all over the world will join forces to settle in IOS, and even give up developing the same model on other platforms after entering - just like those game developers who have been infringed by piracy, in order to prevent piracy, would rather develop games that are 'exclusive to PS3/XBOX consoles, not for PC'!

IF THE APP-STORE MONOPOLIZES THE INSTALLATION ENTRANCE OF THE IPHONE AND IS BROKEN BY JAILBREAKING, WILL THOSE SOFTWARE VENDORS STILL COMPETE TO ENTER THE APP-STORE BECAUSE OF THE PROMISE THAT 'THE IPHONE CAN GUARANTEE THAT USERS ONLY BUY GENUINE SOFTWARE'? How can we maintain our 'application richness advantage' over other open system smartphones? ”

Jobs's idea is clear: in any industry, when you first enter, co-developers are more important than co-consumers, because when this industry was first created, developers were a relatively scarce resource. When he was working on Apple computers, when he formed perennial competition with Windows computers, in fact, Apple also had an advantage at the beginning, because Apple was always cooperating with developers and suppressing consumers.

The history of the development of the traditional PC computer system proves that when the personal PC computer has developed for ten or twenty years, developers are no longer scarce, all the software that was once "talented and amazing" can get cheap or even free alternatives, and all the things made by awesome programmers can be imitated by mature but slightly stupid imitators, and then the Windows system will be completely overturned.

In other words, Jobs's mindset is suitable for a stage when an industry has just been created, there is still a huge vacuum in technology, and developers are relatively scarce and easy to monopolize. Ten or eight years later, the platform matures, and once consumers or user resources become more scarce, the Apple model declines. Windows and Android blew up Apple in two different areas, which is actually a kind of reenactment.

Jobs's anger, in a short period of time, once again emphasized Apple's core interests, and also temporarily unified internal thinking.

"These jailbreak crackers must be killed right away! Thunder-style swift punishment, kill a hundred examples! After a tirade, Jobs gave this order.

"However, those crackers are very hidden, and have not publicly distributed jailbreak tools for commercial purposes, and Google is not willing to cooperate with us to block them, so we can't control it at present." Tim Cook, who is in charge of operations, complained to his old partner with some helplessness.

The rest of the executives were reticent, afraid to interject when Jobs was angry.

"Has the law of America degenerated to such an extent? I can search for so many sharing of cracking tools with a casual Google search, and you actually say that the legal team can't do anything about this? Is Sacred Copyright Law a Sieve? ”

Cook glanced at a mixed-race man in a black suit next to him, and said with a wry smile:

"Stephen, it's not as simple as you think - not to mention that the websites that provide jailbreak downloads are not located in the United States, almost all of them are in those places outside the law. And none of the major propagandists in the country operate in the name of developers. Behind them, they obviously have a legal team that understands the Digital Copyright Act very well, and all of them are operating in a consumer-sharing model - they are neither developers nor direct download providers, they are just sharing their experiences with the product. The law is very sensitive -- let Ramon explain it to you. ”

Ramon is the mixed-race man in a suit, Apple's legal director.

He followed the COO's advice to complain and analyzed the legal difficulty of this matter.

"That's something you legal people should care about, I don't want to listen to the details! I just want the result! Even if they are doing this in the name of consumers sharing their experience of using the product, you will sue me! Prosecute them for 'tampering with and destroying computer equipment systems' or whatever! We're going to deter these people! ”

Actually, it's no wonder that Jobs was so angry. BECAUSE IN THE ORIGINAL HISTORY, ALTHOUGH THERE WAS A JAILBREAK CRACK, IT WAS NOT SO SERIOUS, AND IT ONLY INTENSIFIED HALF A YEAR AFTER THE APPEARANCE OF THE APP-STORE.

AFTER ALL, THE IPHONE-3G IN PARALLEL TIME AND SPACE HAS NOT ENTERED THE CHINESE MARKET, AND THE MI PEOPLE ARE STILL SLOW TO RESPOND TO CRACKING UNDER THE POWER OF MANY YEARS OF GENUINE PRINTING - JUST LIKE A GAME IN LATER GENERATIONS ON RANGER NETWORK OR 3DM, IT CAN BE CRACKED ON THE DAY OF ITS DEBUT, WHILE FOREIGNERS HAVE TO HIDE IT FOR A LONG TIME.

NOW, APP-STORE HAS BEEN JAILBROKEN AND CRACKED AND SPREAD WIDELY IN JUST HALF A MONTH, AND IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THERE ARE OPPONENTS BEHIND IT WHO SPEND MONEY TO SNIPE RESOURCES.

There is no doubt that it is Gu Cheng who is throwing money behind this, but Jobs doesn't know it at this moment. (Later, after the lawsuit got bigger, Jobs also reacted)

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UNDER STEVE JOBS' STRICT ORDERS, APPLE'S LEGAL TEAM AGGRESSIVELY SUED A SMALL GROUP OF "IPHONE-3G MOBILE PHONE CONSUMERS WHO SPREAD AND SHARED THEIR EXPERIENCE IN JAILBREAKING PRODUCTS."

All of a sudden, public opinion in the United States was in an uproar, and countless traditional media and news websites, as well as real-time rolling news broadcasters such as CNN, reported this matter for the first time. There are also millions of individuals who share the forwarding link online.

THE IPHONE-3G MOBILE PHONE HAS NOT YET SOLD HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF UNITS, BUT THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO HYPE THIS TOPIC ON THE INTERNET, AND IT HAS WON SEVERAL TIMES MORE TRAFFIC TOPICS FOR THE IPHONE MOBILE PHONE.

It's a pity that these topics are too controversial and not a good thing.

The EFF Foundation immediately organized some of the defendants to file a counterclaim, and the reason for the counterclaim was naturally the protection of consumer rights and interests, mainly the consumer's absolute control over the products they paid for, and other manifestations of the consumer's free will - the reason was that Gu Cheng helped them polish it.

Now public opinion is even more lively, and there is new news about Apple's lawsuit almost every two or three days.

It's a pity that the efficiency of the judicial system in the United States is relatively low, and even if it is an expedited trial, it is impossible to achieve results in less than a year and a half. According to professional estimates, the case will not be finalized until about the beginning of 2009.

But the criticism and concern of public opinion have at least been formed.

Unfortunately, the controversy over Apple doesn't stop there. After Apple officially sued consumers on May 2 and was countersued, just a day or two later, another bunch of scandals about the performance of Apple's products began to be hyped.

"ALTHOUGH THE NEW IPHONE IS MUCH THINNER THAN THE PREVIOUS GENERATION AND HAS GOOD DROP RESISTANCE, THE DESIGN OF THIS METAL MIDDLE FRAME ANTENNA IS SO SILLY THAT I FIND THAT MY PHONE OFTEN HAS NO SIGNAL."

On May 4th, when this argument first came out, it was still only in the United States, and it was quickly suppressed by Apple's water army.

Because this description is really not conducive to clarifying the problem, and the test environment and control group are not there, it is easy to be regarded as brainless.

However, only two days later, due to the staring and stress testing of "friends", more technical arguments in favor of that "feeling" were dug up.

"The RF design of the Apple phone is simply idiotic, Jobs can only make game consoles, and he doesn't understand mobile phones at all. The reason why the antenna of the metal middle frame is not good is because it is too easy to short circuit and form a closed loop - the human hand is a conductor, and if you just hold the two ends of the antenna gap in the middle frame when holding the mobile phone, the antenna will be useless. ”

"Even if you don't hold this part, if the middle frame part of the shell happens to be wet, or the phone case has a conductive part, the effect of the antenna will be nullified in minutes."

These remarks are all well-founded and cannot be denied by Jobs.

His subordinates had recently been frightened by his anger, and had to ask him personally how to respond to this public opinion.

In his rage, Jobs uttered something that was not calm, but it was indeed in line with his fate—because he said it in another plane—because he said it in another plane—

"Please hold your iPhone in an elegant posture!"

On Apple's official website, a banner was pulled up with a large headline, and then accompanied by a picture.

In the picture, a graceful, slender woman's hand is holding an orchid