Jailbreaking the iPhone
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- Miguex0
as a user:
I did it because my roommate (developer) said it was better and he would do it for me if I wanted. It's very easy to do, (just takes time cause you want to back up your phone before doing it).Sites like apptrackr (mentioned above) will help you get most "apple approved" apps for free, and cydia or something like that, will give you access to an "undeground apple store" with all the rejects, some free, some you pay for.
The only advantage for me is that you can tether your phone/laptop (use 3g/ 3gs/ 4g on your computer by using phone as modem)
The free apps? well most apps suck anyways, think about it, how many apps you REALLY use that didn't came w the phone? you buy them, and in 2 weeks you never used it again (except VERY few exceptions). So free apps is really not on the positive side, you are basically stealing and for what? you might find this cool if you JUST got your iphone and you want to try every app out there, but that will pass.
I just wanted to use OSCulator, but it wouldn't run on my current OS, so I had to upgrade, and if you use the current OS then you can't have it jailbraked, I decided to go back to apple's prision environment with the rest of the sheeple. Hello OSCulator I love you (for a few weeks at least).
Maybe in a couple of months I'll go back to jailbreaking it, when they upgrade the spirit, only because of the tether thing.
It doesn't hurt to try it, it takes 2 seconds (minus the backup) so just give it a spin and see if you like it.