Jailbreak satisfies the desire of those who secretly want an Android but can't afford one.
I prefer my iPhone 5 stock.
My Nexus 4 is the one that's fun to customize.
I prefer my iPhone 5 stock.
My Nexus 4 is the one that's fun to customize.
Seems a waist of my time - more of a gimmicky things teenagers do - pointless - teens these days have no life get outdoors do something - life is only boring if you let it be. Only promotes pirating by allowing pirated apps on your phone or device.
Jailbreak satisfies the desire of those who secretly want an Android but can't afford one.
I prefer my iPhone 5 stock.
My Nexus 4 is the one that's fun to customize.
Question: How do they know how many have installed it? Does it send other data to a server when you jailbreak?
Seems a waist of my time - more of a gimmicky things teenagers do - pointless - teens these days have no life get outdoors do something - life is only boring if you let it be. Only promotes pirating by allowing pirated apps on your phone or device.
...The majority of people owning iOS devices, 95+ percent, don't care for a jailbreak...
I installed it on my iPod touch 4th gen. I don't see what the fuss is all about. The Cydia store is horrific to navigate, and is plastered with so many adverts it makes it just an ugly experience. Not to mention the, "scroll down to see screenshots" text right above the link for screenshots. It's just ugly. I haven't been tempted to install any of the stuff on there because I don't know what most of it does because the descriptions are written in severely broken English.
It's not my cup of tea, so I restored to stock iOS 6.1.
Just my opinion.
Fine, hack into your iPhone and have fun now but don't whine when in a couple of months it's useless and cannot be upgraded and can't even be sold on Ebay.
I think I'll go buy a new Jaguar and hack into the electronics and re-gear the transmission so I can whine about having voided the warranty.
Seems a waist of my time - more of a gimmicky things teenagers do - pointless - teens these days have no life get outdoors do something - life is only boring if you let it be. Only promotes pirating by allowing pirated apps on your phone or device.
Seven Million people have just potentially given access to hackers of the devices where they keep all their personal information.
I'm not saying that hackers have access to these devices but purposefully breaking the security features of your iPhone and allowing a hacker to install root level controlling software on your phone is just irresponsible.
Jailbreak satisfies the desire of those who secretly want an Android but can't afford one.
I prefer my iPhone 5 stock.
My Nexus 4 is the one that's fun to customize.
That's true. I also remember just about two years ago how about 25% of all people who owned an iPhone had never connected it to iTunes to sync, let alone, backup.More like the majority of owners don't even know what a jailbreak is or even exists.
Different peoke have different needs and it seems that a lot don't need/want a jailbreak, due to no interest in jailbreak-stuff or the problems that can get caused by a jailbreak (crashing weather app) and many other reasons.
So if you had more money and large teams of engineers you Couldnt get the job done faster? Plus from the time geohot first jailbreaked the iphone how long did it take for them to get their version of the app store up and running? on a shoestring budget. Was a fraction of the time you are saying. Im not saying apple didnt plan it before but you cant say is impossibly over complicated to be made in less than a year. saurik has proven my point. Remember apple was pushing hard for web apps at first. How did they work out?
You think that there's only 50 million people who aren't aware of the jailbreak? I'd be much more surprised if there's 50 million people who own iOS devices who ARE aware of the jailbreak. Non-technical users (the vast, vast majority of iOS users) don't read tech news and don't jailbreak. For example, in my immediate family, there are 7 iOS devices and only one person (myself) is even aware of jailbreaking.
For many people who don't jailbreak, it's not because they aren't aware it exists. It's just that they are not stupid enough to risk bricking their phone.
The thing about a jailbreak is that if you ever need service on your phone, Apple won't touch it unless they are allowed to do a DFU restore. Technicians are trained to notice the difference because quite often the jailbreak will allow a change in the iOS interface. A change in the interface is a dead give away that the phone has been tampered with unauthorized software. So, if your speaker suddenly stops working, or home button gets stuck, or any other hardware issue, be prepared to have Apple tell you that your phone is out of warranty due to tampering and they can't fix it. They may offer to restore to return it to factory settings, thus putting it back into warranty, but in some cases that might brick your phone.
I seriously believe that a large majority of iOS users don't even know they are running something called iOS. Imagine if they knew they could put cutesy little themes and crap on their device. That 7 million number would be a great deal higher!
Let me ask you this. Did the Cydia store have to prep SDKs for public consumption, get developer help documentation ready, get development tools tested to the point where they were fit for third party developers, etc?
That's the time-consuming part of what Apple had to do. The fact that it went as quickly as it did supports the idea that they were planning to do it at *least* since the initial iPhone release.
I installed it on my iPod touch 4th gen. I don't see what the fuss is all about. The Cydia store is horrific to navigate, and is plastered with so many adverts it makes it just an ugly experience. Not to mention the, "scroll down to see screenshots" text right above the link for screenshots. It's just ugly. I haven't been tempted to install any of the stuff on there because I don't know what most of it does because the descriptions are written in severely broken English.
It's not my cup of tea, so I restored to stock iOS 6.1.
Just my opinion.
To be honest i dont have a huge knowledge in the area, you may be right I just thought if cydia could do it, apple could do it easily with alot more money. Seems strange that they dont have an app store for the apple tv since the app store on the ipad/iphone generates a nice income. user control issues?
If by 'user control issues', you mean the physical control used to interact with it, that'd be my guess. The currently included remote is passable, but a bit *too* simple for anything more complex than navigation through the current interface. Definitely not suitable for arbitrary apps.
That said, I fully expect an TV app store at some point. I just have no idea *when*.
I am interested in jailbreaking but truly understand the benefit of it. Could someone please explain to me the 5 or 10 things I could do that I cannot do today.
I find no use for jailbreak anymore. I'm content with iOS 6 and unless someone can list an app that a user would use on a day to day basis that's game changing from what Apple offers or doesn't offer, I can't see myself jailbreaking.
I always find jailbreaks to cause crashes and be slow. I had my 3G 3GS and i5 all jailbroken. Next day quickly removed.