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Thank god for jailbreaking. Apple's devices get a lot more useful when you don't have to play by their idiotic rules.

• meaty 14y ago
  Just buy a different device. Jailbreaking isn't the best option as one day, they might just find a way of making it impossible.
  • pooriaazimi 14y ago
    It is kinda impossible today (compared to golden days of iPhone OS 3.1 - I must've freed a good 50 iPod touches back then (for my friends)!). You have to wait a few months after any major or even point release, and jailbreaking new devices might take up to 7 months (I think that was the case for iPad 3)!
  • wladimir 14y ago
    Not only that, but by buying from Apple you are subsidizing the practice anyway, so that next time they can develop an even harder to crack version. Aside from that it's a boondoggle, an economic waste to build protections just to crack them. Better to buy hardware from vendors that allow (or tolerates, such as Samsung) rooting and installing custom firmwares.
• addlepate 14y ago
  It introduces drawbacks of its own. I think the best idea is to decide how willing you are to put up with Apple's guff, and then use that to guide whether you even get an iPhone at all. They design their products to be used in certain ways and going outside of that is doable, but annoying. Also, jailbreaking doesn't address this problem at all. Unless you think MS will put out a SkyDrive app that you can get from Cydia or whatever, which they won't.