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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5523425" data-attributes="member: 8835">To FastLearner's comment about offline use:The need for offline use is generally constrained to what I consider productivity or general purpose apps.  A word processor, PDF reader, etc.At the business app category, this is stuff accessing the corporate databases to view current orders, enter in new orders, etc.  Imagine your banking program.  Pretty useless without a live connection to your records.  And the scale of data is not such that you would copy it down to the client.Though a dedicated app can still have benefit (not having to transmit UI content and data content), Generally, you need to be online to use a business app.Also, like your bank program, this stuff is generally secure, and only for direct customers or employees.  Not the general public ordering books from amazon.comOn the topic of jailbreaking:I have no clue why Toyota bothered with doing a jailbroke app.  It would have been just as easy to publish on AppStore and based on all the other vendor crApps, it would have been approved.I also agree with Crighton on the merit of Jailbreaking as it concerns the product.  It's a technical process, that narrows the % of the market willing to do it, or even concerned with it.As it is, the arguments on why Android is better smells more like NerdRage with Apple, as the people making those arguments tend to be the same people willing to jailbreak or mod their phones.  Normal people don't care about that stuff.</blockquote>

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