Apple PR moves to squelch jailbreaking joy among the faithful

Well that didn’t take very long did it.

Early this morning Leander Kahney from the Cult of Mac blog was contacted by Apple PR over this silly idea of jailbreaking the iPhone in light of the new DMCA exceptions.

I just got a call from Apple’s PR department to discuss today’s historical DMCA exception ruling that makes iPhone jailbreaking legal.

Unfortunately, because of the legal issues involved, the Apple spokeswoman would only provide me with the following statement on the record:

“Apple’s goal has always been to insure that our customers have a great experience with their iPhone and we know that jailbreaking can severely degrade the experience. As we’ve said before, the vast majority of customers do not jailbreak their iPhones as this can violate the warranty and can cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably.”

It’s short and sweet: Apple wants to control the iPhone experience to keep things simple and stable. Jailbreaking opens the door to software that can ruin that experience (and maybe steal your identity or spread viruses). For more information about Apple’s stance on jailbreaking, see this support document: Unauthorized modification of iOS has been a major source of instability, disruption of services, and other issues.

There you have it folks. Go ahead and jailbreak your iPhone but don’t expect any love from Apple if you do regardless of what the law says.