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New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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I would imagine apps that work on undoing iOS7's visual changes are going to be popular. I personally would like one, at least for those icons.

I very much doubt this. iOS 7 adoption rate was the best so far, that probably means people don't mind the new look.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have several to do it. The one that pisses me off the most is not having "Lockinfo". Another one is to be able to share your internet with a PC without begging to your provider. And the list goes on. (facetime on 3G...)

In regards to sharing, I believe your provider can detect this and charge you more.

Can you elaborate? How can they detect this other than using methods such as looking at your user-agent or TTL, both of which could be controlled on a jail-broken device?

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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post #5

I can't think of a compelling reason to jailbreak my iPhone in 2013, and I suspect that's true for a lot more people than it was in the past.

Three things were important for me in the past: - GuizmoVPN - Sogou Chinese pinyin keyboard - Mounting a memory card using the ipad camera connector kit

The first two are less longer important for me now because there is now an official OpenVPN client in the App Store, and the native Chinese pinyin keyboard is much improved (although the predictive text is still far behind those produced for other platforms by large Chinese internet companies).

The last one (using a memory card or USB as extra storage) would still be nice as it would reduce the frequency with which I need to refresh content (mostly online lectures).

I can live without a jailbreak now. 2 years ago I would have downloaded it even after reading saurik's twitter comments (kindly posted to HN by DLay). Now I'm more inclined to wait.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In regards to sharing, I believe your provider can detect this and charge you more.

Can you elaborate? How can they detect this other than using methods such as looking at your user-agent or TTL, both of which could be controlled on a jail-broken device?

The traffic patterns of a mobile phone and a desktop computer are very different, even if all you do is browsing.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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post #28
post #5

I can't think of a compelling reason to jailbreak my iPhone in 2013, and I suspect that's true for a lot more people than it was in the past.

F.Lux It used to take me 30-60 minutes to fall asleep. I jail broke my phone to install f.lux and now I fall asleep in ten minutes or less. If I eventually can't jailbreak an iPhone, I'll switch to android.

Same. It's funny that the primary reason I haven't upgraded to iOS 7 is because I like my screen red at night. F.lux is the one tweak that I can't live without, and probably would consider a switch to Android if I couldn't make it happen on iOS.

Apple should just implement f.lux-like behaviour in OS X and iOS, maybe with an API to allow it to be disabled temporarily (for Photoshop, etc.)

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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post #28
post #5

I can't think of a compelling reason to jailbreak my iPhone in 2013, and I suspect that's true for a lot more people than it was in the past.

F.Lux It used to take me 30-60 minutes to fall asleep. I jail broke my phone to install f.lux and now I fall asleep in ten minutes or less. If I eventually can't jailbreak an iPhone, I'll switch to android.

You could just stop staring at your iPhone before you fall asleep?

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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post #5

I can't think of a compelling reason to jailbreak my iPhone in 2013, and I suspect that's true for a lot more people than it was in the past.

1) Firewall program that disallows internet access for specific programs. 2) Cellular data swipe on/off in the quick dropdown window.

Re: New jailbreak available for iOS7 by the evad3rs

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post #5

I can't think of a compelling reason to jailbreak my iPhone in 2013, and I suspect that's true for a lot more people than it was in the past.

My top three:

Freedom to copy your data out of an app into your computer even if the app doesn't "allow" it. E.g., get into Notes.app's sqlite database after they decide to delete all the data when you unlink your account even if it hasn't successfully synced for a year so that you can recover half of it.

Develop apps on your own device without paying $100 and supporting the war on general purpose computing. Also compile and run GPL apps.

A caller and texter black/whitelist.

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