But at the same time, it’s an endless game of cat and mouse in which Apple seem doomed to fail. It might be better if they allowed their users to jailbreak their devices through an official tool, giving the opportunity to those who know what they’re doing while protecting the rest.
Of course, the company has some specific ideas about their development practices, and doing the above would go against the “walled garden” principle that they have been following. Also, it would be difficult to figure out exactly which users actually know what they are doing.
Hopefully we aren’t going to see any more major incidents of viruses being spread through jailbreak tools, as this has happened a few times in the past and has undermined people’s trust in the jailbreak scene as a whole, not to mention in specific developers and distributors.
It’s one of the reasons why Apple are against the idea in the first place, and we can understand their position from this side. It can definitely reflect poorly on the company’s reputation if they don’t take action against possible channels for distribution of malware. And certain publications out there would happily jump on situations like that, using them to undermine Apple’s position even further. However, many are still arguing that the company’s approach towards jailbreak developers has been a bit too heavy-handed in the past, and they are focusing too much effort on dealing with those people.