Jailbreaking - the process of removing your device from the restrictions imposed upon it by the manufacturer. Opening the operating system up to allow new addons and installations.
I'm on my third iDevice now and I've always had them jailbroken. There are so many great apps out there that Apple wouldn't allow in the App Store - often because they replicate features that exist in the stock firmware and quite often because they do it better!
There are lots of contentious issues around jailbreaking your device. Apple have tried to say it invalidates the warranty but most jurisdictions have ruled otherwise. Apple will tell you that allowing 'unsupported' third-party apps on your iDevice poses security risks. And while this may be true to an extent, time and again we have seen the 'hackers' fix security holes that Apple has taken months to attend to.
From a personal point of view, jailbreaking allows me the freedom to do whatever I like with the device I have spent my hard-earned dollars on. Why should Apple dictate how I use my own device? I bought it, I don't rent it from them. Can you imagine buying a 50" high-def plasma and the manufacturer saying "well yes, you can only watch it in black and white". Not bloody likely!
Anyway, what prompted me to write this short piece was an interesting article on jailbreaking on Gizmodo.com.au. Have a read and tell me what you think.
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