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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1353584"><p>Sorry, but you're simply wrong here. Jailbreaking is NOT "perfectly safe." It is, at best, "mostly harmless."</p><p></p><p>For starters, being able to download unauthorized apps means you COULD download a malicious app. That there haven't been many (any that I know of) is a wonderful thing, but you ARE IN FACT overriding the security of the App Store when you jailbreak. Indisputable fact.</p><p></p><p>Second, you void the warranty if something goes wrong. Yes, you can undo a jailbreak -- if the phone is working well enough to do that -- but what if it isn't?</p><p></p><p>Third, the procedure can brick your iPhone if incorrectly followed. Jailbreaking by its nature is messing around with some very low-level system stuff. There's always risk there.</p><p></p><p>There's some advantages in some situations to jailbreaking. I had to do it to my old iPhone in order to unlock it (AT&T refused to do so, and I was moving to Canada and had finished my contract, so nuts to them). I also took advantage of the jailbreak to install a couple of unofficial apps that had good reputations and did what they advertised (one of them added A2DP support to the original iPhone, a godsend to those of us who needed this for wireless headphone use).</p><p></p><p>So I'm not saying jailbreaking is evil or anything, I'm just saying that calling it "perfectly safe" is inaccurate, and kind of like saying taking LSD is perfectly safe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1353584"] Sorry, but you're simply wrong here. Jailbreaking is NOT "perfectly safe." It is, at best, "mostly harmless." For starters, being able to download unauthorized apps means you COULD download a malicious app. That there haven't been many (any that I know of) is a wonderful thing, but you ARE IN FACT overriding the security of the App Store when you jailbreak. Indisputable fact. Second, you void the warranty if something goes wrong. Yes, you can undo a jailbreak -- if the phone is working well enough to do that -- but what if it isn't? Third, the procedure can brick your iPhone if incorrectly followed. Jailbreaking by its nature is messing around with some very low-level system stuff. There's always risk there. There's some advantages in some situations to jailbreaking. I had to do it to my old iPhone in order to unlock it (AT&T refused to do so, and I was moving to Canada and had finished my contract, so nuts to them). I also took advantage of the jailbreak to install a couple of unofficial apps that had good reputations and did what they advertised (one of them added A2DP support to the original iPhone, a godsend to those of us who needed this for wireless headphone use). So I'm not saying jailbreaking is evil or anything, I'm just saying that calling it "perfectly safe" is inaccurate, and kind of like saying taking LSD is perfectly safe. [/QUOTE]
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