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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 5933177" data-attributes="member: 8394">In 2009 or 2010 jailbreaking still required some manual fiddling, so you would've been correct just a few years ago. But we're long past that point. Today jailbreaking "just works" -- no skills required -- and is far less time-consuming than, to take your other example, scanning an entire book to create a PDF. You google "ios jailbreak," download Absinthe or equivalent, run it with your phone plugged into your computer, and voila.Once the phone is jailbroken, both legal unofficial apps and illegal pirated apps are as easy to use as any program on any computer (generally easier, actually, because mobile software lacks the overengineered DRM schemes that pollute so much desktop software). At this point it's just a matter of sharing files online, which, as you say, "is pretty cake."I don't know why we're even discussing this, though. What are the odds of WotC making a standalone app like the first Character Builder? If they made an app, it would be a thin client for a Web service, like the current Character Builder, and this kind of thing is effectively resistant to piracy. While still technically piratable, doing so requires reverse engineering to a degree that pirates normally reserve for big ticket items like World of Warcraft and Diablo III.</blockquote>