> Having said that, unless there's something specific you're looking for, it's not really worth the effort these days and has potential downsides. > The bigges

> Having said that, unless there's something specific you're looking for, it's not really worth the effort these days and has potential downsides. > The biggest downside is that you might find some existing apps on your phone can detect that the phone is jailbroken and refuse to start. So the biggest downside is a problem completely caused by humans on purpose? > There are obvious security reasons for apps like banking apps to do this but also many online gaming apps won't run if they detect that the device is jailbroken in order to deter cheating. The gaming thing is irrelevant to me. I'm not going to sacrifice actually owning my device so that I can play games. As for banking it only matters if you lose your phone (if it's not encrypted) or if you give root access to a malicious piece of software. But even then, why should it matter? Your banking app should still be secure, but it allows the developers to be lazier. You can also log into your banking site through a web portal on your phone anyway even if you have root access so it's completely arbitrary to disallow access to an app on your phone. And the fact that it's checking for that anyway creeps me out. Why is that everyone has has root/administrator access to their PCs but they are perfectly with using another computer that happens to be portable and not have root access. You supposedly own your phone, but if you don't have root access to it, I don't consider that as ownership. Whoever has root access to your phone owns it. > There's an ongoing arms-race between app developers and jailbreakers where jailbreakers try to avoid detection and app developers find new ways to detect jailbreaks. So a new jailbreak will probably not be detected until a few weeks or months later when the app is updated. That's great. A pointless arms race that's a waste of people's time. I'm glad the developments in a real Linux phone are picking up. I'd rather be in full control of the software that runs on my device instead of relying some corporate overlords babysitting me.