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There were many instances in which a feature became available via jailbreak tweak, then showed up in the next major iOS revision. Sometimes implemented in almos

There were many instances in which a feature became available via jailbreak tweak, then showed up in the next major iOS revision. Sometimes implemented in almost the same manner. It is possible that each instance was a coincidence, but that seems unlikely.

Laforet 9y ago
A lot of the features, seemingly taken from the jailbreal scene, were rather obvious additions previously found lacking in iOS, e.g. custom keyboards, call filtering and a common filesystem. Tweaks may have hastened.their development however I am yet to be convinced that Apple relies on other people for ideas.
- joshschreuder 9y ago
  Even so I don't think it would be surprising if they used the popularity of certain jailbreak tweaks to prioritise their own implementations
  - boyce 9y ago
    It'd be crazy not to pay attention to, I've no doubt they keep an eye on these things to inform their feature development
- willstrafach 9y ago
  Safari Private Browsing comes to mind. The functionality and UI was very similar to the jailbreak "tweak" available for this. Also, the new iOS notification system on iOS 4/5 was directly nabbed from a jailbreak tweak, though it was because they hired the developer so I am assuming it was not "copied" in that case.
  - acdha 9y ago
    Wasn't the jailbreak just adding a quick toggle for the existing setting? (And the equivalent of the quickly available mode in most major desktop browsers at that time, including Safari?) Similarly, with Notification Center I've never previously heard that credited to the jailbreak community because it was always mentioned as an area where iOS caught up to Android, which also seems likely as the inspiration for a jailbreak as well.
- PeterisP 9y ago
  Ideas are a dime a dozen, however, it is likely that usage of jailbreaks were useful evidence about which features are so desperately wanted by people that they are willing to go through a nontrivial inconvenience just to get them. Customers saying "I really want X" is generally just empty words with poor correlation about how much X is wanted, and you should take that with a grain of salt instead of assume that there's a demand for X; but on the other hand if there's a price attached (either a literal payment, or price of inconvenience as in this case) then seeing if customers really want this is very useful data.

Laforet 9y ago

A lot of the features, seemingly taken from the jailbreal scene, were rather obvious additions previously found lacking in iOS, e.g. custom keyboards, call filtering and a common filesystem. Tweaks may have hastened.their development however I am yet to be convinced that Apple relies on other people for ideas.

joshschreuder 9y ago
Even so I don't think it would be surprising if they used the popularity of certain jailbreak tweaks to prioritise their own implementations
- boyce 9y ago
  It'd be crazy not to pay attention to, I've no doubt they keep an eye on these things to inform their feature development
willstrafach 9y ago
Safari Private Browsing comes to mind. The functionality and UI was very similar to the jailbreak "tweak" available for this. Also, the new iOS notification system on iOS 4/5 was directly nabbed from a jailbreak tweak, though it was because they hired the developer so I am assuming it was not "copied" in that case.
- acdha 9y ago
  Wasn't the jailbreak just adding a quick toggle for the existing setting? (And the equivalent of the quickly available mode in most major desktop browsers at that time, including Safari?) Similarly, with Notification Center I've never previously heard that credited to the jailbreak community because it was always mentioned as an area where iOS caught up to Android, which also seems likely as the inspiration for a jailbreak as well.
PeterisP 9y ago
Ideas are a dime a dozen, however, it is likely that usage of jailbreaks were useful evidence about which features are so desperately wanted by people that they are willing to go through a nontrivial inconvenience just to get them. Customers saying "I really want X" is generally just empty words with poor correlation about how much X is wanted, and you should take that with a grain of salt instead of assume that there's a demand for X; but on the other hand if there's a price attached (either a literal payment, or price of inconvenience as in this case) then seeing if customers really want this is very useful data.