Apple to Toyota: Ditch the iPhone Jailbreak Theme

macobserver.com

14 points·davethenerd··9 comments

"Apple isn’t saying why it asked Toyota to pull the app from the jailbreak community. The Mac, iPhone and iPad maker may be working to help maintain security on its iOS devices, or the decision could be about controlling all aspects of the platform, including advertising."

Or... the blindingly obvious reason. Apple doesn't want a de facto endorsement of the jailbroken ecosystem by a multi-national corporation out in the wild.

Regardless of Apple’s reasoning, the move sends a clear message to potential advertisers: Stay away from the jailbreak market.

"Stop, or we'll ask you to stop again?" That's not really all that scary sounding.

Probably more like "stop or we'll kick you out of our MFI program"

I'm frankly shocked Toyota wanted anything to do with such a horribly ugly theme in the first place.

Not sure why you're being voted down. Here's the theme in question:

http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/757604-major-corporatio...

It's extremely tacky – why would you attach your brand to that?

I'm just wondering why Toyota thinks they've got the final word on design/theming.

isn't that against some law?

can someone openly use market power to prevent you from selling at a particular store?

i know exclusivity contracts are common, but that's clearly not it.

I think the public version of the conversation is that it was a request from Apple. What the real conversation was... we'll never know.

I fail to see the point on the argument. not trolling, really.

it's still a clear demonstration of market control. openly.

Microsoft at least keep it all away from the public.

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