There are 2 types of person that wont jailbreak.
People who dont give a S about their phone
and secondly
Complete ignorants
I would just like to point out you are a hypocrite.
You are being ignorant to OUR reasons.
To start off I have jailbroken countless devices, for my own iPod, siblings' and countless friends. However this time around now I have got the iPhone 4 I have decided not to for the time being.
- First off I am waiting until the iOS 4 is stopped being updated, I have found with previous devices that it was a hassle to re jailbreak, every single time you update the firmware. Which then resulted in you having to download all the Cydia apps (Yes I know there's an app to do that automatically).
- It's an expensive piece of equipment, if it were to go wrong in the first 6 months or so I wouldn't be happy. But I would like the comfort of knowing that I have my warranty is fully intact. (I know jail breaking does not void the warranty, but I like the comfort of knowing my warranty WILL be valid).
- In time I probably will jailbreak, but for the first few months I will wait to see if I find any problems with the phone itself, and if there is a problem I can blame the phone rather than the jailbreak.
- I have found many of the reasons I have jail broken in the past have been fixed with the updated operating system, that being a custom user background, multi tasking, free tracking software. (I know not everything is there, but most of it is.)
- Battery, the evidence suggests jailbreaking DOES reduce battery life, not by much? But it does, so why jailbreak for features that you may use little, when they could avoid jail breaking all together and simply trade that for more battery life.
- Some people simply aren't interested in what they can make their phone do, epically the older generation that simply want a phone that works (albeit spending a fair bit).
- Reliability, up there in the main reasons for people against jail breaking. When the device is jailbroken it is going to be much more likely to crash than an non-jailbroken device. This is a true fact, and I would much prefer to know that phone is going to be running, rather than it to be crashing.
- Finally SIMPLICITY, it is probably the single biggest reason why people buy the iPhone because it has a really simple OS for a phone of this pedigree. Remember the people on these forums are often those with a keen interest in technology - people who buy the iPhone simply aren't interested in all the extra things "you can make it do".
That is all the reasons I would consider against jailbreaking for the consumers on this forum however if you think of people aside from the general MR (and any other iPhone site) is that they DON'T KNOW about it. When I helped my friends I would consider them to be into technology, but they simply had no idea what "jailbreaking" was. Once I explained it to them what it could do, they have no idea where to start.
- Another point that the non-iphone community has is the FEAR of legal repercussions such of the bad press that it has received.
So am I ignorant?
