Just pointing out that despite it's flaws, iOS is still by far the best option.
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To all of you who don't Jailbreak, mind if I ask why?
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Just pointing out that despite it's flaws, iOS is still by far the best option.
I know all about the flaws in iOS. I have a list of threads by you sitting on my desktop right now.
I'm cool with the way iOS is.
I've had previous phones jailbroken, but I eventually restored it to factory settings. Don't hate it, but don't necessarily love it, either. Only thing that tempts me at the moment is having Nintendo games on it. Everything else is just petty nonsense to me.
I can have an animated home screen that looks like I have an Android? That's cool, but not entirely a necessity.
I've had previous phones jailbroken, but I eventually restored it to factory settings. Don't hate it, but don't necessarily love it, either. Only thing that tempts me at the moment is having Nintendo games on it. Everything else is just petty nonsense to me.
I can have an animated home screen that looks like I have an Android? That's cool, but not entirely a necessity.
I use to love digging deep into all of my gadgets and tweaking every possible setting until it was perfect for me. It was cool to have something perfectly customized to my every whim, and it was neat just to try out new ways of doing everything.
However, over the years I got tired of having to spend copious amounts of time learning how to tweak new systems, figuring out which new tweaks I needed or wanted, and dealing with the problems that can pop up when rooting a system.
I don't doubt there are benefits to jailbreaking my iPhone, but I don't see these benefits as outweighing the simplicity and ease of using the phone right out of the box. I can purchase a new phone, run through the activation, and set it up via iCloud in maybe 10 or 15 minutes. I know I can't possibly jailbreak, sift through all the apps, and get it set up ready to use in that amount of time.
However, over the years I got tired of having to spend copious amounts of time learning how to tweak new systems, figuring out which new tweaks I needed or wanted, and dealing with the problems that can pop up when rooting a system.
I don't doubt there are benefits to jailbreaking my iPhone, but I don't see these benefits as outweighing the simplicity and ease of using the phone right out of the box. I can purchase a new phone, run through the activation, and set it up via iCloud in maybe 10 or 15 minutes. I know I can't possibly jailbreak, sift through all the apps, and get it set up ready to use in that amount of time.