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Apple has maintained for quite a while that jailbreaking your iPhone is a criminal offence. So no, the fear was not only of a voided warranty.

• jonhohle 16y ago
  > Apple has maintained… I don't recall Apple ever mentioning jailbreaking, let alone threatening that it was a criminal act. During the initial iPhone announcement there was talk about the supposed dangers of letting any particular app free on AT&Ts mobile network, but since then I can't recall a time when either a phone manufacturer or a service provider has said anything about the legality of jailbreaking, SEEM editing, etc.
  • orangecat 16y ago
    In Apple's response to the EFF's request for a DMCA exemption, they said that jailbreaking was and should remain illegal. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking-illegal http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking...
    • jonhohle 16y ago
      I stand corrected. I had misunderstood the concern being the distribution of modified, Apple owned software (similar to the Psystar case), but this appears to be a system which patches the software in place, without requiring redistribution of Apple IP.