Jailbreaking your iPhone

Jailbreaking your iPhone

I have little or limited interest in or experience with iPhones. Asked by a contractor on a freelance writing employment website, Odesk, to write two sample articles about iPhones, I did some research and wrote the following  to showcase certain writing abilities. Having supplied the venerable Canadian gentleman, whose name reminds me of a brand of headache tablet, probably an omen in itself, I have never heard from said Canuck again. As for these samples of my work, I'm sure, Senor Northamerican Landshark found a use for them, God bless his integrity-saturated little soul.

For those in the know, the question of whether or not to jailbreak an iPhone, is no question at all. Forget about the threat of legal action. Forget the warnings emanating from Apple HQ or the dangers cited in your favourite IT mag. Jailbreaking your iPhone is now legal, easy to do, and offers so many advantages there really is no compelling reason to resist.

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It was probably only ever a minority who baulked at the legal sanctions set in place to deter iPhone jailbreakers. But since the US Copyright Office declared it legal to jailbreak an iPhone even these have ceased to exist.

Once legal restrictions had been lifted, technological restrictions quickly followed suit. Within days, sites like JailbreakMe.com were offering their services to the cyber world: “Safe and completely reversible (just restore in iTunes), jailbreaking gives you control over the device you own. It only takes a minute or two, and as always, it's completely free.”

So it’s not illegal, and it’s certainly not difficult to accomplish, but why would you want to jailbreak your iPhone? What are the advantages?

It’s quick: opening your iPhone and getting where you want to go is so much faster when security protocols aimed at combatting jailbreaking have been rendered redundant. Achieving an active WiFi connection takes a fraction of the time.

It’s cheap: go to a site like cydia.saurik.com and check out the apps available in the Cydia store. There are a phenomenal number of outstanding jailbreak apps, which you can purchase for a fraction of the cost of an equivalent product from Apple.

Finally, if something goes wrong with the phone, or if for some reason you want to return to jail, the choice is yours. Simply reverse the process; Apple will be none the wiser, unless of course you decide to inform them.