I have never owned an iDevice. I have a MacBook Pro but it's pushing 7 years old. It's old enough that I'm not going to upgrade the OS anymore so I don't even have the mac app store.
no, i don't own any apple products. i have been thinking about buying a older ipod as i need a new mp3 player. i don't know i still haven't decided. my sansa view screen is cracked on the inside. it's not worth getting it fixed compared buying a new one.
I'm using a Galaxy Nexus now, but my previous smartphone was an iPhone 3GS, and that was jailbroken
It's pretty easy to do. And, IMO, being able to control your screen brightness using a dropdown menu accessible anywhere, instead of going out and into Settings and getting into it through there, makes it worth it.
Nope...I have a ordinary not jailbroken iPhone 4S. I believe in paying for apps BUT it is not common at all that I actually buy apps.
The point of Jailbreaking doesn't mean getting apps for free. By jailbreaking you could add cool stuff to your idevice. Emulators, onscreen recorder, and so on.
What Is up with all the not buying Apple products thing, that's still a thing really? It doesn't make you a hipster just cause you buy Apple shit.
Why is it so hard for you to come to terms that some people hate the way Apple does business and find that their products are terrible? I decided to give them a fair chance and I broke down and bought an iPad a few months back. After playing around with it for a few days I promptly took it back for a refund. I do not understand why people like those terrible devices so dam much.
Yeah, but I'm still on an old version (4.3.2) and I'm not sure how to update it without losing the jailbreak apps and stuff. I might just go ahead and do it since certain app store apps don't work on that version.
Not recently. I tried jailbreaking last year mainly to try out Mobilenotifier, the Android lock screen and to switch my SMS tones. I also messed around with the themes a little. After iOS5 came out and finally solved most of the reasons I had for jailbreaking I didn't see the point anymore.
Since then I've switched to an Android phone. I haven't even bothered to root it.
@SexyToad: Since the 4 came out I see no reason to jailbreak ever unless you are a pirate despite the added benefits of changing the ringtones.
Activator is the main reason I jailbreak, and f.lux is another fantastic reason. There's also a myriad of tweaks that makes the notification center and Siri more usable, and also plenty of theming options. That's just to name a few.
I've had a jailbroken 4S since the untethered jailbreak was released, and my 3GS was jailbroken before that. I have never pirated an app and I never will.
When I first got my iPhone I immediately jailbroke it to see all the fuss. Then I won a $100 iTunes card from my school by filling out a survey in the library so I've been legit for 2 years. I still have tons of money left on it as I only buy apps on sale using AppShopper. The balance will probably carry over to my next iDevice.
The library said out of the entire university I was the only one who bothered to do the survey.
@PlasmaBeam44: Same here. I look through the number of emulators on the Google Play store and wonder how many people would really want to play any of those games on their fucking cell phone. That Archos GamePad on the other hand...
What Is up with all the not buying Apple products thing, that's still a thing really? It doesn't make you a hipster just cause you buy Apple shit.
Why is it so hard for you to come to terms that some people hate the way Apple does business and find that their products are terrible? I decided to give them a fair chance and I broke down and bought an iPad a few months back. After playing around with it for a few days I promptly took it back for a refund. I do not understand why people like those terrible devices so dam much.
Because they work. I have a Nexus 7. And even with the latest Android update, it's still not as fast and fluid as Apple's OS on the iPad 2. Say what you want about Apple's business practices (if you really want to ignore all the other companies that do the exact same thing, go right ahead), but they're products are far from terrible.
What Is up with all the not buying Apple products thing, that's still a thing really? It doesn't make you a hipster just cause you buy Apple shit.
Why is it so hard for you to come to terms that some people hate the way Apple does business and find that their products are terrible? I decided to give them a fair chance and I broke down and bought an iPad a few months back. After playing around with it for a few days I promptly took it back for a refund. I do not understand why people like those terrible devices so dam much.
Because they work. I have a Nexus 7. And even with the latest Android update, it's still not as fast and fluid as Apple's OS on the iPad 2. Say what you want about Apple's business practices (if you really want to ignore all the other companies that do the exact same thing, go right ahead), but they're products are far from terrible.
I too have had both a Nexus 7 and the latest ipad, and of the two the Nexus 7 was a much more fluid and enjoyable OS then the Apple one even ignoring how much easier it is to customize Android the way you like. As for their business practices, I never said anything about ignoring other companies that do the same thing. I dislike companies that make products with a closed garden mentality and double so when they throw that garden out every year and make you buy a new one.
If you like Apple good for you. I have just used their stuff in the past and could not for the life of me see any aspect of it that would make people go so nuts for the thing.
I had an Android device and changed jobs so they gave me an iphone 4S and an ipad. Both great devices but if you are used to Android, you can't not jailbreak. I jailbroke both the ipad and iphone and would never go back to stock.
What Is up with all the not buying Apple products thing, that's still a thing really? It doesn't make you a hipster just cause you buy Apple shit.
Why is it so hard for you to come to terms that some people hate the way Apple does business and find that their products are terrible? I decided to give them a fair chance and I broke down and bought an iPad a few months back. After playing around with it for a few days I promptly took it back for a refund. I do not understand why people like those terrible devices so dam much.
I think the issue is with you coming into a thread where the discussion centers on jailbreaking iOS devices and you saying "I don't own Apple devices."
You really didn't need to say it and it adds nothing to the discussion.
Watch as I add to the discussion:
I don't jailbreak my devices partly out of laziness, partly out of me wanting to pay for what I own, and mostly out of my job, where they're all "Ya know, your paycheck comes from us selling stuff digitally, so you may want to avoid piracy in your personal life and, if we find pirated media on your work computer or catch you pirating on our network, security will escort you to the door."
Paying for apps and waiting for the new iOS to add functionality is worth it to me.
What Is up with all the not buying Apple products thing, that's still a thing really? It doesn't make you a hipster just cause you buy Apple shit.
Why is it so hard for you to come to terms that some people hate the way Apple does business and find that their products are terrible? I decided to give them a fair chance and I broke down and bought an iPad a few months back. After playing around with it for a few days I promptly took it back for a refund. I do not understand why people like those terrible devices so dam much.
not buying things is fine. but posting into a thread to tell others that you don't own something just seems weird to me. do these people post into EVERY product on the internet that they don't own. or is it just apple. in which case i guess its well done cos as you say all their products are terrible and all those that think otherwise are idiot sheep
What Is up with all the not buying Apple products thing, that's still a thing really? It doesn't make you a hipster just cause you buy Apple shit.
Why is it so hard for you to come to terms that some people hate the way Apple does business and find that their products are terrible? I decided to give them a fair chance and I broke down and bought an iPad a few months back. After playing around with it for a few days I promptly took it back for a refund. I do not understand why people like those terrible devices so dam much.
not buying things is fine. but posting into a thread to tell others that you don't own something just seems weird to me. do these people post into EVERY product on the internet that they don't own. or is it just apple. in which case i guess its well done cos as you say all their products are terrible and all those that think otherwise are idiot sheep
You are the only one here saying the last part. All I said was that I had bought one and returned it because I did not like it and don't understand why people go nuts over them. There by following your precious rules of following the threads topic by saying that I had one previously and did not jail break it. Sorry for saying I don't like something you do.
I did to get stuff like a notifications thing, mobile hotspot, and a few other things, but then they all became standard, so I don't bother anymore. I've switched to Android for my phone, but still use my iPhone reguary (iTunes match<3) .
My iPad was jailbroken for a while, using emulators with the wiimote was really cool, but the novelty wears off fast. It's no longer Jailbroken.
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