Jailbreak: Why?
- customized jailbroken iphone
So what about that Jailbrake thing, why would we need it for?
One of the main disadvantages of the iPhone are the very restricted rules that Apple has applied onto it for monetary (they will say safety) porpuses:
-You can activate and synchronize your device with your computer only via iTunes.
-You can install software only via the apple store, whether directly from the iPhone or from iTunes.
-You can’t theme your iPhone.
-You can not access your device by any other means.
-etc…
There are also several restrictions applied to the app developers in order to get their programs approved to be inside the Apple Store, The rejection of Google Voice is the more sounded one, but there are also many limitation that won’t allow several programs to be ported to (or developed for) the iphone, issues like:
-Programs can’t run in the background.
-Programs can’t run when the phone is “sleeping”.
-Certain type of programs, like VoIP software, can’t run over 3G.
-etc…
There are even restrictions related what Carrier you can use: iPhones came locked to a specificy carrier and you can not change your mobile company.
But the iphone is not only a phone, is a computer more powerfull that the first i386 I had back in the 80′s, it can do much more. But it feels like it’s in Jail!
There is where the clever guys from the iphone dev-team came with a solution: Jailbrake
