The main allure of an Apple product is its relatively rock-hard stability, which need little to no frequent maintainance from the end user. Introducing hacks and cracks into this produces instability, and defeats the purpose of using an Apple in the first place.

If that is the case, why not move to Samsung Omnia or the disgusting Touch? Or are these folks waiting for the multitouch patent or all the iPhone advantages to be widespread and ditch iPhone altogether?

more pirate then more firmware will be produce.this will go on untill they shoot the pirate.

Im not talking about the pwnage/winpwn. Im talking about people pirating the apps from Appstore. You've already own the most desirable piece of mobile platform known to man, yet you skimp on a measly USD4.99 for a hacked app?

Hell, even during the good old 1.1.4 days, there were even people asking for a hack/crack for 3rd party apps!! Hack/cracks for iPhoneVideoRecorder , SwirlyMSS or even Showtime, and these arent even Apple's Apps in Appstore, these are from the very same people who brought you the very tool you use to unlock/jailbreak your iPhone so you can use it! Do some people have no shame that they are willing to screw the very people who made their iPhone-using experience happen, just because they are too cheap to support the very same people who gave them that privilege FOR FREE?

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Added on August 13, 2008, 3:10 pmI agree on this, I all for the advancement of the firmware, but to those cheapasses who pirate even the most measly of Apps in Appstore, that gets my blood boiling. I remember my roots, I came from an activate/jailbreak/unlock background myself, hell I wrote the revirginizing thread in this forum! But please give these App developers a break by supporting them, they charge appropriately for their Apps, and you get proper support through the Apple AppStore channel. Some of them came from the same people who provided you free repositories for your previously 1.1.x apps! Why are you screwing them now just because they are on AppStore and asking for appropriate payment for their hardwork, but praised them to high heaven during the 1.1.x days when they provide things for free? Are you THAT cheap?

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Aug 13 2008, 03:11 PM

well this explain a lot.buy ORIGINAL!

Precisely. These apps dont come out of thin air.

gogogog..ORIGINAL .

The "I Am Rich" incident was seriously hilarious enough to keep me rolling for quite some time there. I mean, one of the 8 *ahem* smarties *ahem* who purchased the thing even claimed it to be an accidental purchase. And well, although it would make a great publicity stunt for any corporate, this money isn't even going to a good cause Some lucky arse just landed himself with USD $8,000 for less than an hour's worth of objective C....

This post has been edited by Samanoske Akechi: Aug 13 2008, 04:10 PM

hahahaha... i oso wan that "i am rich" apps... but i dun hav 2.0fw and i dun have money...

i need donations!

don't forget 70/30 deal!
i want I Am Poor.

This post has been edited by LaskarCinta: Aug 13 2008, 04:29 PM

@String
U can preach and comment all day string but in the end, it boils down to the person itself. If its their habit of "why pay when u can get free", then there's nothing we can do. If you want to try the app first then its ok since appstore don't have a preview or 'test drive' for the app. If you like it then pay for it, it can be a motivation/incentive for the dev to produce more and better apps in the future.

p/s - I really don't understand why in the first place apple let this 'I am rich' app loose in the appstore. Thats why they put the failsafe switch in fw 2.0 so if there's a malicious app that got thru their so called "app validation process", they can kill it off from the phone, to protect the users. I don't think they can detect who's using cracked apps with the kill switch. The black list only holds the app name that deem to be dangerous/malicious. Thats just my 2 cents.

Which is what I am talking about. Giving these people their dues. You wont see me defending the likes of the devs that create crapwares like the "I am Rich" app, that one DESERVES to be pirated for all its worth.

My point here is give these people their dues, something they deserve, be it good (in terms of a purchase to continue supporting them to make more great apps), or teaching those devs who are crazily pricing their apps with astronomical prices. It already had worked with Cro-Mag Rally, with their lowered price now.

Piracy here is a double-edged sword, but Malaysians seems to be using the edge that convenient them most. Orang lain pun nak makan jugak bang!

all... all these back to the basic, product intellectual !
with the "Why Pay More When You Can Get Free".... "firmware" being set in most of the users,
I don't think they will put on someone's shoes ! That is a sad thing indeed....

Same concept goes to this :
Imagine... you have written a great great Apps.... and someone managed to crack/hack it then spreads it out for FREE.
What is your feeling by then ?

So.... please support ORIGINAL !!
If you are not before.... then DO IT NOW !

I don't think it is considered EXPENSIVE for those Apps in AppStore. Why ?
With the exact same games (for example), for iPhone/iPod Touch, it costs less than USD10.00
However... for computer platforms... it definitely costs more than that.
So... do u think it's still expensive ? You make your own judgement on that wisely...

@friends
Well said my friend. Like most of us here said too ... If u can afford 1k plus phone, takkan la u can't afford RM30 app. Don't la go buy 20-30 app cost usd9.90 in one go ... of course la expensive. There's lots of good stuff in appstore and some of them are free.

p/s - Right now i'm hooked in playing chopper. Damn addictive la. Worth the USD7.99 spent (baru RM25.57). Not so crazy about the overly hype SMB.

Yepp.... there are many FREE + COOLS Apps or Games too !
Check out via iTunes....