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It looks like it's compatible with iOS 7.1 beta 2 though. http://imgur.com/HjyNM79
I suppose that means 7.1 won't be released until they've fixed it. It's so unimaginably stupid that they didn't wait until 7.1 was released so that the general public could get the bug fixes and performance improvements in that release and a jailbreak as well.
Can anyone with a line in on how much jail breakers make for these contact me? john@techcrunch dotter commer. Thanks.
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>You could just stop staring at your iPhone before you fall asleep? There's this big problem with technology - particularly common with people that is not familiar with it (looking at you @aroch) - where people think that you should adapt yourself to the technology around you where it should always be technology the one that should adapt to your lifestyle. If you cook something and it tastes like shit, do you eventua…
Your analogy says 'adapt yourself' which is the parents point. Technology unfortunately cannot keep up with our desire to use it to the detriment of our own health.
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Well, the reason that the Cydia store doesn't work, and that Saurik wasn't included in the discussions, is starting to become clear. A Chinese company paid the evad3rs a rumored 1 million dollars for the jailbreak, forcing their own App Store onto the phone. If the computer running the jailbreak has Chinese as the main language, then the Chinese 太极 (taiji) market app is install. Cydia is available as an option, but i…
I'm confused, nobody knows what's going on inside this jailbreak? People with enough technical knowledge to want to jailbreak will install something like that without it being open source?
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Wow. This changes a whole lot of things. This is basically the worst-case scenario for Apple in terms of jailbreaks: For the first time, there's an unknown corporate actor calling the shots, and the high code-signing security of iOS 7 has backfired, causing this to be the only jailbreak on the market. If this becomes anywhere near as popular as Evasi0n for iOS 6.1 (over 7 million downloads in its first few days), App…
Minor nitpick: "Port Gatekeeper to iOS" doesn't make much sense; the built-in FairPlay DRM and code signing stuff is already a "gatekeeper on steroids". It's exactly the type of protection that a jailbreak would work around.
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Minor nitpick: "Port Gatekeeper to iOS" doesn't make much sense; the built-in FairPlay DRM and code signing stuff is already a "gatekeeper on steroids". It's exactly the type of protection that a jailbreak would work around.
Pretty sure that by "Port Gatekeeper to iOS" he's talking about giving the users the ability to choose whether or not to run signed (or unsigned) code that doesn't come from the AppStore, exactly like you have on the Mac (see the bottom of the "General" tab of "Security & Privacy" in System Preferences.
Unfortunately though, I doubt we'll ever see Apple giving up control of its App Store. They'll patch this one and move on, like always, making future jailbreaks even more difficult to produce.
At least the major publicity around jailbreaks means Apple will take these vulnerabilities seriously and patch them quickly. Which is a very good thing for the security of regular users. Scary to think of how long 0-day vulns like these would stay alive if there weren't in such demand by tweakers.
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.
However there is one reason I would want to jailbreak - f.lux.
Interestingly, this seems to be a common thread among jailbreakers. One of these two reasons almost always applies:
- libertarian hackers who want to do stuff most people don't care about
OR
- installing f.lux
Seems Apple should notice this and integrate f.lux-like behavior or APIs allowing such behavior. Unfortunately, given that the display looks less attractive when f.lux is enabled, they probably never will. That's a shame.
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Because we want both openness and the iPhone, and are unwilling to compromise.
what does the iPhone offer that makes it compelling to not get a different device?
And Apple's after sales support is excellent. iPhone doesn't work properly? Factory reset. Still doesn't work? They'll swap the iPhone, in-store.
I used to jb because I needed the unlock.
Then when I saw all the amazing functionality that could be had, I was a big fan.
Since unlocking is no longer relevant, I wish to JB simply for all of the quality Cydia tweaks.
Without a properly functioning version and with some mysterious chinese crap installed, I am not interested.