US copyright law adjustment: iPad jailbreak is no longer legal Domestic developers do not worry

A provision of the U.S. Copyright Office may affect developers' ecological dependence on Apple, but it also provides a better picture of Apple's choice and frustration as its gross profit margin declines and its competitors are chasing down.

Recently, at the triennial review of the exemption of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the U.S. Copyright Office has given a more pro-active interpretation of the legalization of jailbreak on tablets including the iPad. Officials at the U.S. Copyright Office said that given the hard-to-define categories of tablets, giving them immunity would be very dangerous.

In addition, the U.S. Copyright Office has also tightened the terms of the unlocking of smartphones by a large margin - as of January 2013, users must obtain the license of their respective carrier to legally unlock their mobile phones. It states that the handset software is licensed to users only, but users do not own the software and can easily unlock the handset through legitimate channels.

The provisions of this provision has aroused the concern of a large number of Apple mobile phone users and developers. For a long time, the legalization of Apple products jailbreak, plaguing Apple itself, but also plagued many of its ecosystem ecology participants. In China, developers attached to the jailbreak channel in Apple accounted for more than 60%. Apple is also on the issue of jailbreak ecology and control of the balance scale.

Shanghai Da Bang law firm Partner Youyun court also gave a similar explanation. He said that after the iPhone and iPad jailbreak legalization, the original intention is to meet the user after buying a mobile phone, ownership of the phone, carrier and application download channels free choice, but does not include infringement of intellectual property pirated software .

The term "tablet" means the device is too broad, so the revised bill excludes "tablets", including the iPad, from the list of legitimate jailbreaks.

However, Yu Yun-ting believes that the above amendments to the bill are also based on the balance of interests of operators and users represented by Apple Computer and AT & T.

However, some domestic developers iPad jailbreak illegitimate is not worried about.

Chen Hao Zhi, CEO of Touch Technology told the "First Financial Daily" that the concept of jailbreak in the United States is different from that in China. The United States jailbreak is based on third-party software application download channels, providing consumers with more legitimate software download options; and China's jailbreak, the performance of the gray support for pirated software.

91 assistant founder, Xiamen Synchronous Network Co., Ltd. Xiong Jun believes that the iPad application in the smaller proportion of iOS, jailbreak for tablet input rate of return is not high.

He pointed out that iPad accounted for only 30% of the entire iOS platform, only for the development of tablet applications only 20, while the iPhone has 70.

However, iPad has a higher earning efficiency. Although both iPad revenue and iPad shipments account for 30% of the iOS platforms (iPads, iPhones, and iPods), iPads pay for a single application at a higher rate.

Statistics, as of the end of 2011, iPad application average download revenue per share was 0.31 US dollars, while the iPhone was 0.13 US dollars, the former 2.4 times the latter.