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Freedom vs. Function: Why I Hate Jailbreaking my iPhone

• ryanpetrich 14y ago
  "I actually narrowed the problem down to a tweak I was using that prevented the landscape view of album covers in Music" I'm responsible for that—NoCoverFlow wasn't compatible with iOS 6.1 until the update was submitted earlier today.
  • dylangs1030 14y ago
    Hey Ryan, I'm a big fan of your work on Cydia. Thanks for responding about NoCoverFLow. Hope you understand my gripe wasn't with NoCoverFlow itself, I was referring to a larger problem I've found with jailbreaking since around iOS 2.
• comex 14y ago
  Note that with jailbreak tweaks, which critically depend on hooking various random internal functions of closed-source binaries (and coexisting with any number of other tweaks that may be hooking the same functions) to do their magic, it's not so much "sloppy code" as "not extremely meticulous code". Then again, this doesn't matter at all to a user - broken code is broken code. (And there certainly is some true sloppy code.)
  • dylangs1030 14y ago
    You're right, and I understand the difficulties that involves, especially since I'm not an iPhone programmer. However, as a user, you're right, broken code is broken code. There are those, like RyanPetrich who commented below, who turn out tweak after tweak and are known for high quality work. That said, there are many more tweaks without the same level of skill and care taken in their coding. And one of my biggest problems with this system is the lack of any real overseer. But that would be difficult to achieve without an authoritarian, or making the system closed, like Apple.