Because....
Just saw
this. I can't believe the iPhone 4S has been out for over two months and there is still no true untethered jailbreak. What's the hold up?
For all the complaining iPhone fans do about Android fragmentation, Android rooting seems to be a much more standard process than iPhone jailbreaking.
Because the main hackers for Apple devices were hired by Apple, like Comex. Major hackers were hired, and they gave up tethered/untethered jail breaking and the jackreak community. Instead newer hackers (not new, but new the scene for releasing unethered jailbreaks instead of Comex and so on) are on the scene. Although it is taking a while, there were complications with the new Apple A5 Dual-Core processor.
I have heard that they have successfully untethered iOS 5 on iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3rd, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4th. However are going through tests to make sure they work very well before public release.
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Without a JB, the 4s is just a buggy 4, nothing to write home about
That doesn't make much sense, the bugginess is software (excluding the battery issues, which Apple is working to fix ASAP). And jailbreak won't do anything but make it more buggy, not less.
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All I know is I miss my jailbreak.! I'm more angry with Apple that they hold back so much in terms of the potential of the phone. If they gave us HALF of what the jailbreak community has, the iPhone would be that much more superior over other devices.
I used to Jailbreak iOS 4, but iOS 4 didn't have that many features worth boasting about. But iOS 5 is actually pretty decent. Although there are some tweaks I miss, I would still opt for stock iOS 5 than a jailbroken iOS 4 any day.
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I agree with both sides here, I completely agree the devs are doing this for free and we all need to be grateful for the jailbreak whenever it is finished.
But I also agree with folks who say we should pay $10-20 per jailbreak as it would provide more incentive for the devs, reward their work, and allow quicker jailbreaks.
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Just thinking out loud here there are a few million iPhone 4S' out there at the least, even if the jailbreak community is 1% of 5 million that's 50,000 jailbreakers. Charge $10 a jailbreak and truly dedicate your time to it and develop quick jailbreaks and that is $500,000 to the dev team just right now and just for iPhone 4S user base. Just saying...
That's a pretty good idea. That would buy the dev teams the latest Apple devices for testing and if they earned even $200,000 (per jailbreak here) that could be their full-time job. Lets say then (think out loud) the dev teams charge $9.95 per jailbreak, per iOS 5.X release (5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and so on) they could earn at least $1,000,000 a year. Damn, I wish I was a hacker.
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I agree with both sides here, I completely agree the devs are doing this for free and we all need to be grateful for the jailbreak whenever it is finished.
But I also agree with folks who say we should pay $10-20 per jailbreak as it would provide more incentive for the devs, reward their work, and allow quicker jailbreaks.
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Just thinking out loud here there are a few million iPhone 4S' out there at the least, even if the jailbreak community is 1% of 5 million that's 50,000 jailbreakers. Charge $10 a jailbreak and truly dedicate your time to it and develop quick jailbreaks and that is $500,000 to the dev team just right now and just for iPhone 4S user base. Just saying...
That's a pretty good idea. That would buy the dev teams the latest Apple devices for testing and if they earned even $200,000 (per jailbreak here) that could be their full-time job. Lets say then (think out loud) the dev teams charge $9.95 per jailbreak, per iOS 5.X release (5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and so on) they could earn at least $1,000,000 a year. Damn, I wish I was a hacker.