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What's the point of Jailbreak if you can't access half the apps w/o WiFi.

No offense or anything but....
I think it's pretty ignorant of you to say all this is pointless.
You must understand everyone is in different situations.

I live in NYC and there is wifi pretty much EVERYWHERE, literally....
You get access to wifi almost anywhere you go in the city, except the subway of course, lol....
 
DAP1MP13 said:
No offense or anything but....
I think it's pretty ignorant of you to say all this is pointless.
You must understand everyone is in different situations.

I live in NYC and there is wifi pretty much EVERYWHERE, literally....
You get access to wifi almost anywhere you go in the city, except the subway of course, lol....
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No, what's ignorant would be if the person felt it was pointless for EVERYONE.

Personally, I think it's completely pointless for me, now I've done it, because no matter what anyone says about paying for Cloud WiFi access, or there being WiFi "pretty much everywhere", where I go in London for my work (I'm a TV camera operator and photographer), there is practically NO WiFi access.

Hence, my Blackberry does everything the hacks bring to the touch, and it does it anywhere at all - much like the iPhone but without the ridiculous tariff and danger of killing the battery and being unable to make calls because I've been having fun with the iPod or Maps or whatever. Don't get me wrong, it's deeply cool when you're near a free and open WiFi spot, but totally impractical the rest of the time. Hey ho.
 
owen-b said:
No, what's ignorant would be if the person felt it was pointless for EVERYONE.

Personally, I think it's completely pointless for me, now I've done it, because no matter what anyone says about paying for Cloud WiFi access, or there being WiFi "pretty much everywhere", where I go in London for my work (I'm a TV camera operator and photographer), there is practically NO WiFi access.

Hence, my Blackberry does everything the hacks bring to the touch, and it does it anywhere at all - much like the iPhone but without the ridiculous tariff and danger of killing the battery and being unable to make calls because I've been having fun with the iPod or Maps or whatever. Don't get me wrong, it's deeply cool when you're near a free and open WiFi spot, but totally impractical the rest of the time. Hey ho.
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Didn't I just say in my last post that everyones situation is different.

Also, I don't pay for "cloud" wifi access, nor do any of my friends, I'm not sure if thats what you implied though.
On the street in New York, you can pick up free wifi signals from schools/colleges/universities, hospitals, cafes, museums or anyone who choses to setup an unprotected network.
 
DAP1MP13 said:
Didn't I just say in my last post that everyones situation is different.

Also, I don't pay for "cloud" wifi access, nor do any of my friends, I'm not sure if thats what you implied though.
On the street in New York, you can pick up free wifi signals from schools/colleges/universities, hospitals, cafes, museums or anyone who choses to setup an unprotected network.
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Yes you did say that, and I agreed with you by pointing out that not everyone that was saying it was pointless was being so ignorant as to say it was pointless for everyone. Seems more and more like you're being a bit ignorant yourself, dude... ;)

I wasn't implying that you are paying for Cloud. I was referring to the other posters in this thread that are suggesting paying for Cloud.

Also, I'm not in New York. Wonderful for you, though, I'm stoked for you. But I'm not in New York. All subjective, isn't it?

Blackberry that doesn't die within a day, and iPod touch for music and movies, best combo.

WiFi surfing on iPod touch an occasional bonus.
 
Anyway, the point of jailbreak is to gain read-write-modify access to the iPod Touch. Without having wifi access you're left with the ability to customizing the look and feel of the OS (assuming you are by a computer with wifi access) and also installing apps that don't require a wifi connection to work.
 
owen-b said:
Yes you did say that, and I agreed with you by pointing out that not everyone that was saying it was pointless was being so ignorant as to say it was pointless for everyone. Seems more and more like you're being a bit ignorant yourself, dude... ;)

I wasn't implying that you are paying for Cloud. I was referring to the other posters in this thread that are suggesting paying for Cloud.

Also, I'm not in New York. Wonderful for you, though, I'm stoked for you. But I'm not in New York. All subjective, isn't it?

Blackberry that doesn't die within a day, and iPod touch for music and movies, best combo.

WiFi surfing on iPod touch an occasional bonus.
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I agree with most of what you said.

But of course, as you know, not everyone has a blackberry or similar device.
Thats one reason this is so "hyped."
Think of all the people out there who are stuck with their crappy/old cellphones, where you can't check email and browse the web, all you can do is make/receive phone calls.
For those aforementioned people this is probably a little more than just a little "bonus." These are the people that are probably most excited about this.
I'm sure they don't think these hacks are pointless of useless, right? ;)
 
Going round in circles now - we both agree that some people will find them useless due to lack of WiFi, others won't...

All I want to know is, is there any simple straightforward way of putting the editable iCal onto my iPod touch without downloading a plist and editing a this and hacking a that and changing a checksum and wazzing a whizzo and hopping a doodah?

;)
 
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