Ask HN: Did Apple intentionally leave a door open for Jailbreaking?
.. and should every company do this?<p>Do you think Apple intentionally left a door open for jailbreaking iOS in the early days? Or in other words: Did Apple realize the potential jailbreaking had to catalyze innovation in this very new product category?<p>Apple had this new product and some sort of vision for it, but why limit yourself to your own company and a set of employees when you could leverage the creativity of any developer in the world?<p>In the early versions of iOS Apple did copy a lot of features from the jailbreaking community. One might argue that sooner or later Apple would have come up with these features anyway, but the community might have fast-tracked the development of the OS and the capabilities of this new device.