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[eru]

They could just make it easy to hack open, to achieve nearly the same effect without having to support it officially.

[ghshephard → eru]

Don't they already do this with the iPhone. :-)

[pyre → ghshephard]

Not really. A lot of the hacks that are used to jailbreak the phone are actually security holes. So they can and do get patched, leaving you 'out in the cold.'

[Retric → pyre]

With a developer licence you can install software outside the normal "sandbox".