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Jailbreak -to be or not to be? (iPhone 4)
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1493737" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>I'm neither for or against Jailbreaking..but one of the key things to keep in mind is that Apple has taken measure to ensure that applications that make their way onto your devices are assured to not cause any harm to the device, and if they did, they'd go after whoever did the harm and get you back in business.</p><p></p><p>That protection is gone the moment you JB and install the various app store-equivalents that get you apps that didn't make into the legitimate app store for one reason or other. You are now purely taking the word of whoever is selling/giving the wares that it won't cause any harm and if it does, too bad..nothing you can do about it..hope a restore gets you back in business otherwise time for a new device..</p><p></p><p>There is also the identify theft and other malicious activities you have to worry about..</p><p></p><p>Now it looks like you are doing the necessary research about this and going into it knowing the risks which is good as opposed to just doing it for the sake of doing it and then complaining about the fact that it somehow broke your device..</p><p></p><p>Because this is not a sanctioned thing from Apple, there is always a risk that trying to JB your phone might do something bad..and Apple for a while was doing things to the phone to make it harder to JB it until the US law allowing JB'ing to be legal, so they've stopped that now..</p><p></p><p>However, should you sufficiently break the phone trying to JB it, you void your warranty and Apple will wash it's hand off of your device and not help you..</p><p></p><p>I jailbroke my iPhone 3G purely to see what the hoopla was all about back in the day, didn't see anything really exciting about it and reverted back..I haven't tried the same with my iPhone 4..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1493737, member: 110816"] I'm neither for or against Jailbreaking..but one of the key things to keep in mind is that Apple has taken measure to ensure that applications that make their way onto your devices are assured to not cause any harm to the device, and if they did, they'd go after whoever did the harm and get you back in business. That protection is gone the moment you JB and install the various app store-equivalents that get you apps that didn't make into the legitimate app store for one reason or other. You are now purely taking the word of whoever is selling/giving the wares that it won't cause any harm and if it does, too bad..nothing you can do about it..hope a restore gets you back in business otherwise time for a new device.. There is also the identify theft and other malicious activities you have to worry about.. Now it looks like you are doing the necessary research about this and going into it knowing the risks which is good as opposed to just doing it for the sake of doing it and then complaining about the fact that it somehow broke your device.. Because this is not a sanctioned thing from Apple, there is always a risk that trying to JB your phone might do something bad..and Apple for a while was doing things to the phone to make it harder to JB it until the US law allowing JB'ing to be legal, so they've stopped that now.. However, should you sufficiently break the phone trying to JB it, you void your warranty and Apple will wash it's hand off of your device and not help you.. I jailbroke my iPhone 3G purely to see what the hoopla was all about back in the day, didn't see anything really exciting about it and reverted back..I haven't tried the same with my iPhone 4.. [/QUOTE]
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