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Apple Credits 'Evad3rs' Jailbreak Team for Discovering Security Issues Fixed in iOS 7.1
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Why does Apple prohibit features they themselves offer in other products?
I wish they'd simply allow the most popular, benign jailbreak features to be available in the App Store. They obviously won't or we'd see multiple offerings of apps with these features.
Take screen rotation, a key feature of iPad from the start but most non-game apps on the iPhone can't do it. One simple jailbreak unlocks the capabliity to vastly improve usability and accessiblity by providing a natural aspect ratio that other iOS devices have out of the box.
And screen mirroring. You can buy an iOS jailbreak or a third party desktop app in OS X that turns on the feature but Apple permits it natively for only a subset of their products. I'll be the judge if the performance meets my needs.
It's not like there are no horrifically buggy apps in the App Store. Take a look at surveillance cam apps if you think there's any minimum standard for a UI, usability, stability or security to get into the App Store.
We are adding these features to our devices in spite of Apple's efforts to stop it. That's strong customer feedback. We just want to fully enjoy the slick, pricey products we paid for.
I wish they'd simply allow the most popular, benign jailbreak features to be available in the App Store. They obviously won't or we'd see multiple offerings of apps with these features.
Take screen rotation, a key feature of iPad from the start but most non-game apps on the iPhone can't do it. One simple jailbreak unlocks the capabliity to vastly improve usability and accessiblity by providing a natural aspect ratio that other iOS devices have out of the box.
And screen mirroring. You can buy an iOS jailbreak or a third party desktop app in OS X that turns on the feature but Apple permits it natively for only a subset of their products. I'll be the judge if the performance meets my needs.
It's not like there are no horrifically buggy apps in the App Store. Take a look at surveillance cam apps if you think there's any minimum standard for a UI, usability, stability or security to get into the App Store.
We are adding these features to our devices in spite of Apple's efforts to stop it. That's strong customer feedback. We just want to fully enjoy the slick, pricey products we paid for.
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The one thing that is missing is a Siri button on the homepage. I was she was there instead of clicking the home button.
Software can almost always be messed and tinkered with. That does not mean that it's generally accepted. I'd wager that only a tiny fraction of iOS users actually jailbreaks their devices. Whether you could consider that as 'strong customer feedback' is thus questionable.
Apple has for the most part always been about offering an out-of-the-box solution that is optimised for the customer. There has to be some acceptance of the fact that Apple devices are locked-down, it's been like that for a long time. There may be ample reasons why Apple restricts certain functions, but we have to assume that most of it is intentional. The iPhone works as it is supposed to work, according to its designers. You may disagree with that and find a way around it, but that is how it works with Apple.
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Waiting for iOS 7.1 would have been strategically better. We don't know whether there will be an iOS 7.2 at all (there is no iOS 6.2 or 5.2 either). The .1 releases are considered to be the most stable ones, which makes the decision to stick with iOS 7 very difficult, if you cling more to your jailbreak.
ppdix
macrumors 6502a
Never getting rid of JB!!
I could never go back to a stock iPhone 5s
There are so many amazing things that I can do now that are either not possible at all or just not available on iOS7.
Some of my favorites: BiteSMS. Just the 3 second delay to send a message is priceless Not to mention, scheduling a message and contact photos next to messages and the awesome Quick Reply.
Mail Enhancer Pro. For $0.99 u can "select all" your messages, have rules and multiple signatures and also speech. The app tells you WHO emailed you, by name, so get one those annoying Messages from Papa John's, and you don't have to take your phone out of your pocket
Barrel Just cool animations.
Forecast. Animated weather on your lock screen.
Copic. Contact pictures EVERYWHERE!
Bloard. Get rid of that horrible white keyboard.
Activator Customize ANY button or action to do anything.
PasswordPilot. Never retype your apple ID password again.
ShowCase. Make the keyboard show actual lower/upper cases A must
And many more 😎
I could never go back to a stock iPhone 5s
There are so many amazing things that I can do now that are either not possible at all or just not available on iOS7.
Some of my favorites: BiteSMS. Just the 3 second delay to send a message is priceless Not to mention, scheduling a message and contact photos next to messages and the awesome Quick Reply.
Mail Enhancer Pro. For $0.99 u can "select all" your messages, have rules and multiple signatures and also speech. The app tells you WHO emailed you, by name, so get one those annoying Messages from Papa John's, and you don't have to take your phone out of your pocket
Barrel Just cool animations.
Forecast. Animated weather on your lock screen.
Copic. Contact pictures EVERYWHERE!
Bloard. Get rid of that horrible white keyboard.
Activator Customize ANY button or action to do anything.
PasswordPilot. Never retype your apple ID password again.
ShowCase. Make the keyboard show actual lower/upper cases A must
And many more 😎
Klae17
macrumors 65816
Love when the first poster doesn't read the article.
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The important fact missing from this statement, is the fact that ALL of the amateur coding you get with tweaks and utilities are just that: amateur. They are poorly done, and so is the entire execution of every jailbreak, and the silly environment they run in.
It is all bottom of the barrel programming, and its not worth using on any sort of regular basis. Nothing compares to the polish and performance of Apple programming....of stock iOS software. As someone who has jailbroken every iPhone since iOS 1.4, I can honestly say it is NOT GOOD programming...but rather, amateur hackery. All of it. Even the "good" ones.
When Apple spots a good idea that originates on Cydia, and builds it in to iOS, they are doing the world a favor. Apple does it better than the amateur hacker ever could of, and customers benefit from something that actually works.
Jailbreaking isn't bad, but it isn't good either. iOS may be fun to hack, but its not easy, and it doesn't ever go well. There has never been a jailbreak release, or a single tweak or customization, that performed as well as any one piece of Apple-vetted programming.
mdelvecchio
macrumors 68040
how do you mean? do you have data to show they dont do acknowledgements? if so, why is it a bad thing?
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ah so you know the man? you work together, or you went to school w/ him or something...? or are you just another random dude on the interwebs who has no idea what Cook is like but think you do because you read rumor sites?
Truffy
macrumors 6502a
If they weren't changing (and I'm not sure what the point of that statement is in this context) they'd be stagnating. 🙄
I am, yes. And, more to the point, so's my wife (although she doesn't know it).
7.1 fixed a lot of things:
keyboard is easier to read
touch id works flawlessly
slightly better cell reception.. i've gotten 1 bar higher in areas that used to offer only 1 or 2 bars
battery life improved by at least 20-30 minutes on average
no more crashing and restarting
phone overall is much snappier
keyboard is easier to read
touch id works flawlessly
slightly better cell reception.. i've gotten 1 bar higher in areas that used to offer only 1 or 2 bars
battery life improved by at least 20-30 minutes on average
no more crashing and restarting
phone overall is much snappier