Cracking has been around for years, why all the crying when it comes to the Iphone? The people that are using the crack would never have brought the software anyway. Either write your own protection, which will have to be updated constantly to keep up with the hackers or just live with it. Either way stop crying!

And don’t even try to blame it on the jailbreak. The jailbreak is god’s gift to the IPhone and only a small percentage of users who jailbreak use it for evil.

I know…. After buying a cracked app most people won’t go buy the paid version with the same functionality! It’s unfair to the developer and illegal! I can understand downloading a cracked iPint, because not only was that free in the beginning, the only way to use it is via a cracked download. iPint is awesome and it’s retarded that Apple banned it due to the “fact” that it duplicated the functionality of iBeer, which is a crappy, low-quality game compared to iPint in my opinion.

Really? I have to disagree with you on this one.

First off, this application should really be free. What’s the difference between this application which costs $.99 and a free WebClip I make in Mobile Safari that just points to a site containing MP3s of these sounds, sometimes referred to as “mosquito ringtones.”

Second off, I’m calling out Christopher Kemsley for this one. There’s the initial fact that the application took virtually no creativity or brainpower to create. It simply plays a music file stored on the iPhone. Also, if he’s charging $.99 and Apple is taking a 30% cut, is he really selling enough of these to make enough money that the FBI should be concerned with this? Doesn’t the FBI have more important matters to deal with rather than some guy whining about losing a few hundred dollars cause he won’t make a trial version.

I side entirely with the cracker on this one. There’s no way I can know that an application will actually do what it promises without trying it out first. I shouldn’t have to fork over money to the developer just to have them not deliver a decent product. Yes, Apple is supposed to be approving each application, but even then, people still manage to release applications that are nothing more than a icon for a mobile webpage.

John Soliman, You should find out more about what you’re talking about before you, ah, talk about it. Because you don’t know how Annoy-A-Teen actually works, you obviously haven’t acquired a stolen copy of it, which leads me to give big kudos to you.

As a proud owner, I’ll help correct your misperceptions. Annoy-A-Teen obviously generates its own tones on the fly instead of simply playing back the free mosquito ringtones like “Teen Torture” does. You can tell by the way it works, if you’re a programmer and/or engineering type. On top of that, in the “Pulse Mode” it modulates these tones, not done in the mosquito MP3 files. On top of that it has the “Alien” mode that is clearly multiple, variable frequencies, once again not possibly by just playing back MP3 files of single tone.

You can verify most all of this via each app’s comment section and visiting the developer’s site - as well as verify that, yes, Scarlet, it really does work… preventing you from having to break the law by cracking it to “test it out”.

So, even though it’s obviously simple, it’s both fun and at least a bit beyond your uninformed “virtually no creativity or brainpower to create” derision. If it was so easy. why didn’t you invent it?

And, seeing that it’s been hovering around #55 Top Paid App for a few weeks, I’d say he IS making quite a bit of money on it, $0.70 at a time. In fact, I think the developer even told you that in the CNET article.

Yes, it’s worth more than free, but the of price is up to the developer, not you. If you don’t think it’s worth, $0.99.

Just don’t steal it, especially by using lame excuses like “I just wanted to make sure it works”.

Please check your facts before insulting others.

I have to side entirely with the developer. Lame excuses are no excuse for theft.

HACK THE PLANET!!!

Ooooh.

Good rebuttal.

Your superior intellect is obvious.

WHat’s the cracked app called? I wanna get it to see what all the hub-bub is about.

Jailbreak is Gods gift to iPhone and Steve Jobs Punishment for trying to dictate to us how we should use the devices we paid a lot of money for and more, pay a lot of money just to use.

We will be interviewing Christopher today on The App Show. You can watch live at http://www.theappshow.com/live at about 1:30PM Eastern or watch the archived show on the website. You can also hear it by subscribing to The App Show in iTunes.

You can watch for my post on Twitter when the show is about to start (username sbostedor)