What iOS 5 owes to jailbreak developers

I agree with some of the article’s points, but it doesn’t mention that Apple hired Peter Hajas, the developer of MobileNotifier.

> It is great to see these enhancements become available to millions of users, but it affects the ability of others to innovate on the platform independently of Apple.

Could someone explain this to me?

I don’t think that stealing features from iPhone developers’ add-ons is any worse from stealing from Android or WebOS. (And, for better or for worse, this is the point of software patents.)

Not directly related to jailbreaking, but this link on the sidebar of the OP is interesting. Published 2 days prior to iOS5 announcement. Depending on how you look at it 6-8 of the "must download first" apps are now part of iOS5.

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/04/10-apps-you-should-install-fi...

Does it help you if you call it third-party research? Whatever it is, however it is, it wasn't helping 99% of us till now.

I'm glad someone is finally discussing this. IntelliScreen was the first app ($10) I ever bought on the iPhone -- long before Apple's "magical" app store even existed -- through Cydia/Rock (or whatever it was called at the time...)