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Evasi0n Jailbreak Installed on 1.7 Million Devices Since Monday Release
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I'm one! Love Apple hardware, but love the pure android software on my Nexus 4 more. I'm sure there are many others.
With something like 500 million iOS devices out there, jailbreakers account for less than 1% of all users.
Don't get me wrong - it's still millions of people, so it's a real phenomenon and it's here to stay. But it's never going to represent a substantial proportion of users.
Thats a hard phone to get.
But ultimately yeah they want to do what Android does. I certainly like best of both worlds.
Compared to - perhaps. But close to 2M installs - Since yesterday? That's significant no matter how you slice it.
1.7 million... compared to how many iPhones and iPads out in the world?
A couple hundred million?
I'm glad the jailbreak exists... but let's be clear on the definition of "negligible"
Stop comparing and just look at the number. People are simple stating that 1.7M people jailbreaking is significant. And it is. On what planet does nearly 2M installs in ONE DAY not constitute a significant install base?
There are phones out there that don't even sell that many in total.
Yes - by comparison - vs the # of sold iPhones it's not HUGE. But you also have to remember what % of owners could give two craps in general (IE own an iPhone because its an iPhone) vs those that are more "hardcore"
Buddy is just arguing to argue.
Many people have iPhones & ipads and don't care about jailbreaking like my sister and mother. Its a high number, he just wants to argue.
Serious question...why is it awesome that some people care about jailbreaking?
I don't care one way or the other whether folks jailbreak...that's their business.
I'm just curious why you think it's "awesome"...a wonderful thing to do?
Cant speak for the op, and I haven't jailbroken any of my devices yet (I will jb my aTV3 when possible).... but imo it's good to see that consumers have options and some measure of autonomy/liberty form Apple's control-freak practices. And that goes for any product or service purchased form any company or corporation - specially hardware.
cheers!
Thats about 0.5% then. It doesnt sound significant, but it kinda is... 0.5% of iDevices have installed a jailbreak in a FEW DAYS. Remember that people are still jailbreaking as we speak, too, so 1.7m is not the final figure.
Serious question...why is it awesome that some people care about jailbreaking?
I don't care one way or the other whether folks jailbreak...that's their business.
I'm just curious why you think it's "awesome"...a wonderful thing to do?
It's awesome that people still care about jailbreaking, because the jailbreak scene was slowly dying up until this point. The resounding success and popularity that the launch of this evasi0n tool has shown (finally) proves that jailbreaking is as popular as ever, and that's awesome. The community lives on, for now.
And with regards to why jailbreaking is "a wonderful thing to do" - whilst I'm positive that you're not being pedantic or nescient on purpose, I'm sure you already know.
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Some they will. And they will ignore that it ever existed before. They will announce how amazing and magical these new additions are while also claiming that Apple waited until they could do it RIGHT instead of just adding it "willy nilly."
Hardcore would be compiling a custom kernel from source. Double clicking a link to jailbreak your phone...ehhh not so much.
I'm still wondering why people who are "hardcore" jailbrakers don't just go to Android. It's like buying a Mac and installing Linux on it so none of the printer drivers work and you have to tweak your video driver every two days to compensate for the idiot who wrote the original code in his spare time in his underwear and didn't get it all right. But it's "hardcore." 1.7 million people and counting are taking an expensive device that was designed to work, and making them flaky and easy to brick.
I've never understood why you would take one of the most stable OS's in history and make it unstable and less secure.
But to each his own, as they say.
But to each his own, as they say.
Serious question...why is it awesome that some people care about jailbreaking?
I don't care one way or the other whether folks jailbreak...that's their business.
I'm just curious why you think it's "awesome"...a wonderful thing to do?
More people do it = More support for it.
More support for it = More tweaks that come out faster and are better.