Kevin Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 What is a jailbreak? And how do you do it for the iPhone? Is it legal?
The Dean Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 What is a jailbreak? And how do you do it for the iPhone? Is it legal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking Is it legal? I guess it is now. But it may void your warranty. (BTW, this should be posted on Off The Wall forum.)
Webster Guy Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking Is it legal? I guess it is now. But it may void your warranty. (BTW, this should be posted on Off The Wall forum.) its officially legal now but "jailbreaking" a phone is simply opening up the operating system so that you can do things that the locked, standard phones can't. Stuff like switching from AT&T as your carrier, running non-iphone endorsed apps etc. It was never really called illegal in the first place, just risky and warranty-killing. I have an iphone4 on order and the dude that works at the mac store told me that 99% of the people would gain nothing from jailbreaking a phone except screwing themselves up. Its for advanced users with specific non-iphone requirements. Jailbreaking sounds cool tho. Unlike JailBAITING which is an entirely different topic. For that one you need go to the archives and look up Travis Henry et al.......
Kevin Posted August 1, 2010 Author Posted August 1, 2010 its officially legal now but "jailbreaking" a phone is simply opening up the operating system so that you can do things that the locked, standard phones can't. Stuff like switching from AT&T as your carrier, running non-iphone endorsed apps etc. It was never really called illegal in the first place, just risky and warranty-killing. I have an iphone4 on order and the dude that works at the mac store told me that 99% of the people would gain nothing from jailbreaking a phone except screwing themselves up. Its for advanced users with specific non-iphone requirements. Jailbreaking sounds cool tho. Unlike JailBAITING which is an entirely different topic. For that one you need go to the archives and look up Travis Henry et al....... Thank you very much.
Chilly Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 its officially legal now but "jailbreaking" a phone is simply opening up the operating system so that you can do things that the locked, standard phones can't. Stuff like switching from AT&T as your carrier, running non-iphone endorsed apps etc. It was never really called illegal in the first place, just risky and warranty-killing. I have an iphone4 on order and the dude that works at the mac store told me that 99% of the people would gain nothing from jailbreaking a phone except screwing themselves up. Its for advanced users with specific non-iphone requirements. Jailbreaking sounds cool tho. Unlike JailBAITING which is an entirely different topic. For that one you need go to the archives and look up Travis Henry et al....... It technically was illegal - a violation of the DMCA
Malazan Posted August 1, 2010 Posted August 1, 2010 It technically was illegal - a violation of the DMCA It wasn't illegal as the DMCA requests were invalid. Companies claimed otherwise. It's simply been clarified by the fols with authority now.
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