supersocialist

I would also like to win.

A patient man, I spent many months thinking "eh, I can wait" for cut/paste... now that I have it, of course, I am loathe to live without it.

Nostalgia, exactly. All I need to know is how do Dark Castle, Shufflepuck Cafe, and Brickles run?

Let the security theatre commence. As everywhere else, there needs to be an appearance of escalation to keep developers happy and keep casual pirates off the bleeding edge. (I wonmder if new DRM tech increases revenue for a certain period before it's cracked--I'd love to see stats on that.) But people who are really determined will penetrate the every new wrapper, it's just a matter of time.

"Because you can" is the BEST answer, in my opinion, but the practical answer is that jailbroken apps have better hardware access than app store apps, and can do more/better stuff. Not having a Touch, my two primary examples that I use rely on the iphone camera hardware (snapture, cycorder video), but there is plenty of stuff (categories, backgrounder, sbsettings) that would be a big boon on the other platform.

I have an iPhone being used as an iTouch because I wanted the extra hardware (external speakers for sharing videos, camera for easy snapshots) and the ability to expand into using the cellular radio when cost, need, and/or available funds allow. I can buy a SIM card when travelling and add local service to the device, which I can't do with my Sprint phone (which I only keep because I'm locked into a great monthly price from a few years back).

Looks like it needs more buttons. A hand-held with enough power to run XP but too few buttons to play Chrono Trigger, or even Super Mario Bros? This is a deal-breaker in my book!

No wonder they need a kill switch.

And yet, Cydia isn't flooded with tip calculators. All the homebrew stuff is pretty good. Even the flashlight app is better--it has the ability to turn up the brightness.

I wonder if this is all apps, or apps in a certain location (just homebrew or just appstore), or visible SpringBoard apps but not hidden-with-Categories apps... and what the threshold is. I can't have more than fifty apps on mine, no trouble here. I'm not sure I could find enough apps I want to get to double that number.