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As someone who used to jailbreak devices almost instantly when a tool was out, I have found myself really not needing a jailbreaking in recent years. The OS its
by LeoNatan25 9y ago
As someone who used to jailbreak devices almost instantly when a tool was out, I have found myself really not needing a jailbreaking in recent years. The OS itself has matured a lot, I seem to have outgrown the "tweak mentality" and no longer find join in it, but most importantly, the security implications of jailbreaking (breaking the sandbox, running untrusted 3rd party software at the root level and the jailbreak tool itself - blob binary that has rarely been open sourced in recent years). It's just not worth the risk anymore.
On the other hand, for low level development on a lab device, jail-breaking is invaluable.
- willstrafach 9y agoYou're not alone there, Apple has integrated a whole lot into iOS now, so there is much less reason to need a jailbreak.
- csydas 9y agoI would say that Apple has definitely done a lot with iOS to achieve feature parity with Android and the Jailbreak tweaks, but when I am on iOS, I still jailbreak in order to control the less desirable features of various apps. Youtube backgrounding, for example, is something I had forgotten was not standard until I switched to an Android based phone; years ago I had installed a Youtube tweak on iOS to allow backgrounding (without Youtube Red) and was very frustrated when I found out this wasn't the default behavior. Likewise, complete control over button remapping, complete control over the size and duration of notifications, granular control over notification badges, and also there is a tweak that allows you to slide across the keyboard anywhere to control the cursor, not just the spacebar (a feature I desperately wish was available on Android) There's a lot to jailbreaking still, I think, and the business of "for pay" tweaks seems pretty stable at the moment.
- pitaj 9y agoCan you explain what you mean by the keyboard slide thing? I want to know what I'm missing out on.
- wizardforhire 9y agoI used to do the same thing and feel the same way as you do now. I jail broke my first iPhone in 07, used t-mobile would install boss tools first thing and jail breaked every phone after that except for this one. It just wasn't worth it for me anymore and I also found less joy in the whole experience. But in 2007, a jail broken phone was a thing of pure magic! I would VNC into either a M7CL or a profile (depending on the day) over Ethernet from my laptop, then create a hotspot and VNC into my laptop from my 1st gen iPhone. Slowest thing ever but it worked! It had always been a dream of mine since 1998 when I first started doing sound to have a small portable touch screen to mix from... Now you can buy a mixer for $300 dollars that does the same thing and has better preamps as well. Oh how times have changed.
- agumonkey 9y agoI'd bet we all had that phase were we wanted a thing to be in control, fulfilling all our dreams, thus digging for access.
- kweks 9y agoThe one missing "tweak" - open tethering. MyWi was an amazing Cydia app, allowing for 3G > wifi, and even wifi to wifi sharing. The iPhone still feels totally crippled without this functionality, and there's not even any way to side load the app. If anyone has any solutions for this..
- hackmiester 9y agoMaybe I misunderstand, but my iPhone seems to have this out of the box...? (Not the Wi-Fi to Wi-Fi one, but tethering to LTE via Wi-Fi.)
- kweks 9y agoYou are correct, but tethering ability is controlled by your carrier, meaning many have it disabled or charge for more if you tether. The wifi to wifi ability is fantastic when you are in hotels, etc that charge per device. It's the one jailbreak all that I miss sorely, that is obviously built into android by default.
- chipperyman573 9y agoDoes Android not allow carriers to control tethering as well?
- dzhiurgis 9y agoXCode allows you install apps without app store. You can find open source tethering apps. Somehow they don't require special api's.