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I hope it doesn't. Apple needs to stop taking credit for the jailbroken ecosystem, even though they're doing whatever they can to hinder it.

"I don't buy an iPhone because they're locked and I think we need to support open devices." "Who cares, just get one and jailbreak it."

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Apple needs to stop taking credit

How are they taking credit for the jailbroken ecosystem? I've never heard Apple once mention jailbreaking in any marketing context. (Really, in any official context at all.)

They're making money from increased product sales from people who otherwise wouldn't have bought an iPhone.

Making money's far different from taking credit. They'd be taking credit if they claimed responsibility for the jailbreak ecosystem; as it stands, they're simply gaining some very marginal benefit and, at the same time, actively trying to crush that ecosystem.

How about how they take credit for inventing the appstore, even though jailbreakers had a thriving app marketplace before you could install anything besides the default apps on the first iPhone/iPod touch?

If you want to get worked up over that, sure. I won't question that assertion. I'll just point out that other platforms had "app stores" before even the iOS jailbreakers.

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