I guess the best way to put it, is that if you don't know what you're missing than it's not such a big deal. But if you've jailbroken previously, and you know what you're missing already than it's a big deal to you. Once you go to the dark side you can never go back.
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Did you jailbreak your iPad?
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I certainly don't disparage anyone who doesn't "feel the need" to jailbreak their iDevice, but in the same vein...I don't particularly care for those who try to somehow insinuate that those who JB are somehow bad or doing something egregious or polluting to the pristine Apple universe. There will always be those out there who need to "push the envelope" or who are interested in going beyond the single vision pushed by the Cupertino cult, and there's nothing wrong with letting both populations exist side by side in my opinion. Eventually they will both be stronger for each having existed. Much like Android development forces Apple to innovate in cases where they might not have...so does the jailbreaking scene. At the very least...it provides everyone a nice little test lab to see what the devices are really capable of when not hampered by arcane controls and arbitrary style and business rules.
Exactly, I have actually bought more from the app store than I would have if I wasn't jailbroken. I never keep a pirated app on my device longer than I need it to decide whether it is worth the price or not, and most expensive apps I buy I would not have risked if I didn't have the ability to test it before buying it.
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It is impossible for Apple to tell if your device has been jailbroken if you restore it. It's just like wiping out the hard drive on your computer. The only way Apple could find out is if you brought the device to them in that state.
drenline
macrumors 6502a
You're missing out on hundreds of cool features that you would never get to see.
It's like buying a brand new Ferrari and being stuck on the 1st gear.
Just sayin'.....
iFoneOnFire
macrumors newbie
Not true even if you wipe a hard drive thigs can be pulled off of them I used to work for a repair shop and people would come in all the time needed data recovery but in no means does this mean the data is not corrupted. That being said I have read that apple can accesses a boot log and see all the times it was restored and if a custom frimwear was installed further more just because apple can do that in like 99.999999999999% cases apple would never go through that trouble because it's not worth their time and like I said before if you know how to jailbreak your phone I would say in most cases you would have the know how on how to fix it
dukeblue91
macrumors 65816
BFizzzle
macrumors 68020
This is my first iPad and I'm seriously considering jailbreaking it. The iPad, while a great device, is missing quite a few customizations that are no brainers on Android.
Like Widgets. Why is it multiple taps/clicks to get the weather? There is so much room on the iPad home screen for widgets.
Like WiFi control.
Like Brightness control.
I'm not certain but hopeful that solutions to these and many other UI quirks are overcome with Jailbreak apps.
Like Widgets. Why is it multiple taps/clicks to get the weather? There is so much room on the iPad home screen for widgets.
Like WiFi control.
Like Brightness control.
I'm not certain but hopeful that solutions to these and many other UI quirks are overcome with Jailbreak apps.
A) to recover the data off the flash after a complete wipe/rewrite, apple would have to inspect the flash at the microscopic level.
B) in the case of incomplete rewrites, going through gigs and gigs of raw binary to look for a tiny morsel of data indicating a jailbreak would take more time than what the device is worth
C) I don't think restores are logged, and even if they were, the filename means nothing. I could rename any ipsw to anything I want. Doesn't mean I jailbroke. These days most jailbreaks don't involve custom firmwares anyway since we don't have a boot rom exploit. And with one, it'd probably be trivial to wipe such a log if it existed.
Pipper99
macrumors 68040
I will be jailbreaking. 🙂
http://www.macgasm.net/2012/04/02/one-hundred-legit-reasons-to-jailbreak-all-in-one-video/
http://www.macgasm.net/2012/04/02/one-hundred-legit-reasons-to-jailbreak-all-in-one-video/
scaredpoet
macrumors 604
Some people like buying Ferraris and then never driving them, or babying them when driven and never putting them on the autobahn/track. But it still makes them happy to own one.
If a person is happy with a non-jailbroken iDevice and they are happy with it, then yes, they are using the device to their full potential.
Jailbreaking is about choice. And some people make a choice to not jailbreak, and that choice should be respected. To say that someone SHOULD jailbreak for the sake of doing it is, IMO, almost as bad as the "walled garden" philosophy that the jailbreak community rallies so hard against.
"I don't see the point" is a perfectly valid reason not to jailbreak. That should be just fine, as long as the person isn't refusing to jailbreak purely out of FUD reasons.
That said: I've jailbroken before, and regularly jailbreak iPads and iPhones for friends who ask me to do it on theirs, if they request it. But I don't push them to do it. And, I currently don't have my iPhone or iPad jailbroken, because I'm good with they way they are now.
D.T.
macrumors G4
Im the same as the previous couple of posters. Ive JBed a number of products in the past (most recently, our Apple TV 2), but Ive been running our phones and pads without it.
When (if) a 5.1 untethered for the iPadTG is available, I might explore it again. My iPad isnt as mission critical as my phone, so I can be a little more experimental, my phone I need to operate 100%, and might need immediate service, etc., so I dont like adding any extra variables to the availability.
When (if) a 5.1 untethered for the iPadTG is available, I might explore it again. My iPad isnt as mission critical as my phone, so I can be a little more experimental, my phone I need to operate 100%, and might need immediate service, etc., so I dont like adding any extra variables to the availability.
jailbroke my iPad 2 as soon as soon as it was available, didn't upgrade to 5 til that was broken. If I decide to upgrade to a 3rd gen, it won't be til that is broken. I've become far too dependent on my tweaks! I've only had a couple problems; one was solved by deleting the last tweak I'd added, the other with a reboot.
drenline
macrumors 6502a
Thats not the point. The point is he has no idea what he is missing, so he is clueless.
100 Reasons to Jailbreak[2012]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZoqW-GEdQM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
That is all.