Perhaps more than anything, though, the jailbreakers demonstrated living, coded proof that there was immense demand for an App Store and that people would be able to do great things with it. Through their illicit innovation, they showed that the iPhone could become a vibrant, diverse ecosystem for doing more than making calls, surfing the web, and increasing productivity. And they showed that developers would be willing to go to great lengths to participate on the platform; and they didn’t just talk, they built a working model.
