Here's the important sentence, and why the author has a point: "if I was running a jailbroken iPhone, I'd just restore it with iTunes, and it would be factory-

Here's the important sentence, and why the author has a point: "if I was running a jailbroken iPhone, I'd just restore it with iTunes, and it would be factory-fresh with known software." Apple tells you not to jailbreak, but they'll happily let you back in the house if you've gotten yourself into a mess. Google are telling power users that their OS is the hacker-friendly one, but leaves minefields for anyone who takes them at their word and tries to do what the author did.