Would you pay an extra $8/mo to instantly have your jailbreak on every update? Then buy a developers license.
Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?
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Re: Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?
#52Man, this takes me back to watching the Jailbreak community like a hawk back in like 2008 or something when I had an iPod touch and I was waiting for iOS 3 to be jailbroken. Man, those were some really fun times.
I can remember scanning the forums for hours, knowing that there would be a jailbreak soon, but not knowing when. I remember when the first untethered jailbreak got released, in all it's sketchy, poorly explained glory, and carefully going through the lengthy procedure to make it work.
Aaaahhhhh memories...
Re: Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?
#53Would you pay an extra $8/mo to instantly have your jailbreak on every update? Then buy a developers license.
Nobody here or on that site have any use for rooting (jailbreak is such a silly term). They just want to be cool.
Cory doctoraw, ifixit ceo... It's just a publicity stunt.
And everyone in this thread? They keep dumping their money happily on the latest device. Even though ios7 does zero more than a rooted ios6 (the only new feature that is not aesthetic is the control bar, which is better on ios6 with unofficial code anyway)
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Re: Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?
#55Serious question: Why bother? Why is there such an interest in using a very closed system in a way the vendor does not support if there are (more) open alternatives? Is it because you are forced to use an iPhone by external factors, like your employer? Are there critical features missing from Android and all the others? Is it just your personal preference? I really don't mean to offend anyone, it's just that I percei…
While there’s still about zero percent chance of it happening in the near term, I have to think that long-term, Apple will port Gatekeeper to iOS. It’s a near-ideal balance of security on OS X: Non-technical users can stay in the walled garden of the Mac App Store, semi-technical users can allow signed binaries, and power users can run whatever they want.
I work in the mobile healthcare space, and right now, we’re starting to move away from iOS as a platform for future projects because of the restrictions and hassle of the App Store. We’re not making 99-cent games and artisan to-do lists, so the fact that iPhone users are far more likely to spend money on apps doesn’t matter to us – we need a platform that lets us communicate with medical devices and display information for healthcare professionals without a mercurial third party deciding what we can and can’t do.
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#56> Jailbreaking is also critical to ensuring that the disabled are able to use their mobile devices as easily as possible. This reason, while good and noble, feels really wonky. From what i understand, iOS's accessibility has much miles better then Android's accessibility options. If their main motives is to give a better mobile experience to people with special needs, maybe focusing on implementing these improvements…
That was true on Android 2.3.. Things are inverted now.
But anyone with visual disability will still have to scavenge for a phone with actual buttons. And good luck with that...
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm with you on this one. I value my ability to develop applications for my Android device free from worry about a future update taking that ability away from me. My applications never need to be on an app store, and I can share them with whomever I like, in any manner I like. Why would I buy into an ecosystem that then forces me to hope someone far smarter than I is able to break the security of that system for me?…
Exactly, Google will never add codes to Android KitKat that tells T-Mobile about unauthorized Tehtering. /sarc
AFAIK, it doesn't. 4.4 contains a setting that allows a provider to specify a different APN for tethering use, which I can imagine is a legitimate feature. You can also turn it off (on IPv4 at least)
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right, sorry for not being more clear. What I intended to say was that Apple won't allow you to tether without approval on any networks. At least it defaults to allowing on all networks by T-Mobile.
Apple even respects T-Mobile's wishes on the matter. I put a SIM connected to one of T-Mobile's $30/5GB prepaid accounts in my iPhone 5. When I try to turn the tethering function on, I get a prompt telling me to go to a T-Mobile website to get on a plan that supports tethering.
Ignoring the wishes of the people who gave them the better part of a thousand dollars for the piece of hardware in their hand.
The carrier control of tethering made sense back before the iPhone had market dominance. Now it's stupid and user-hostile.
Re: Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?
#59Serious question: Why bother? Why is there such an interest in using a very closed system in a way the vendor does not support if there are (more) open alternatives? Is it because you are forced to use an iPhone by external factors, like your employer? Are there critical features missing from Android and all the others? Is it just your personal preference? I really don't mean to offend anyone, it's just that I percei…
iPhones, ostensibly, integrate much better with iTunes. I still have hundreds of Protected AAC files I bought on iTunes pre-2009 that will not play on Android phones. The only way to get around that is to burn/rip the AAC files or pay Apple to upgrade them to the other format.
Just fyi: I believe [make sure this is right before you do it!] you should be able to subscribe to iTunes Match ($25/year), delete the songs from your computer, then redownload them in the DRM-free format. Not free, but probably cheaper to do that than to upgrade a bunch of songs one-by-one to the DRM-free format. Then you could drop the iTunes Match subscription.
Re: Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?
#60Would you pay an extra $8/mo to instantly have your jailbreak on every update? Then buy a developers license.
Nobody here or on that site have any use for rooting (jailbreak is such a silly term). They just want to be cool. Cory doctoraw, ifixit ceo... It's just a publicity stunt. And everyone in this thread? They keep dumping their money happily on the latest device. Even though ios7 does zero more than a rooted ios6 (the only new feature that is not aesthetic is the control bar, which is better on ios6 with unofficial code…
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