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In short, Jailbreak is the process of hacking an iPhone to free it from Apple restrictions.
Because the iPhone is far from flawless as Apple created it, thousands of iPhone users have flocked to Jailbreak in search of iPhone changes and improvements. iPhone has been held back by limited customizability, text message privacy issues, and a lack of multitasking capabilities. But Jailbreak can solve all of these problems with apps and fixes available in Cydia and Installer.
Cydia and Installer are the only real repositories for 3rd party and unapproved apps. You can get more on random websites, but these two aggregate them and act as unnofficial app stores.
In order to understand the difference between Cydia and the regular iTunes app store is to understand that Apple only wants apps to be able to do certain things. Cydia and Installer have a very limited apps approval process - you can pretty much upload any app that you create.
Why Jailbreak iPhone?
First of all - Jailbreaking will make all of your iPhone fantasies come true. Have you ever wanted to install "adult" wallpaper on your home screen? Done. Create a homebrew game with it's own icon? Done. Use your iPhone as a sci-fi shrink ray? Well, you can't do that yet, but once someone creates an app for that, you'll be able to install it!
2)To join the subculture. Sick of Apple's stranglehold on the iPhone? Those who Jailbreak iPhone belong to a movement of people who demand more from their iPhones. And they're not gonna let Apple stop them. Beat the system: Jailbreak your iPhone.
Third - Using the phone on carriers other than AT&T. Let's face it. Apple has given ATT a monopoly with trying to tie all users who buy the iPhone to ATT. When you jailbreak, you've then got the option to unlock the phone and use it with whatever carrier you like.
Are There Any Drawbacks to Unlocking the iPhone?
1st)Apple, as a company, generally knows what it is doing. There are certain features that the iPhone is capable of, but that they have not enable. And this is usually for a reason. For instance, when you multitask, it is a huge drain on the battery. By using the default configuration, you'll know that your iPhone will just work. Period.
Second - Your iPhone could *potentially* become bricked. This happens when the unlock or jailbreak process gets interrupted or messed up somehow, and your iPhone is as useless as a brick until you restore it to factory settings (losing all of your date in the process).
Third - You can't update your phone with new releases of iTunes. New releases might have cool new features, but they also contain patches that will "un-jailbreak" your phone.
Fourth - The minute that you jailbreak your iPhone, the warranty is null and void. So if you accidentally brick it, or even drop it or something - you are on your own and stuck paying for any repairs out of pocket.
Because the iPhone is far from flawless as Apple created it, thousands of iPhone users have flocked to Jailbreak in search of iPhone changes and improvements. iPhone has been held back by limited customizability, text message privacy issues, and a lack of multitasking capabilities. But Jailbreak can solve all of these problems with apps and fixes available in Cydia and Installer.
Cydia and Installer are the only real repositories for 3rd party and unapproved apps. You can get more on random websites, but these two aggregate them and act as unnofficial app stores.
In order to understand the difference between Cydia and the regular iTunes app store is to understand that Apple only wants apps to be able to do certain things. Cydia and Installer have a very limited apps approval process - you can pretty much upload any app that you create.
Why Jailbreak iPhone?
First of all - Jailbreaking will make all of your iPhone fantasies come true. Have you ever wanted to install "adult" wallpaper on your home screen? Done. Create a homebrew game with it's own icon? Done. Use your iPhone as a sci-fi shrink ray? Well, you can't do that yet, but once someone creates an app for that, you'll be able to install it!
2)To join the subculture. Sick of Apple's stranglehold on the iPhone? Those who Jailbreak iPhone belong to a movement of people who demand more from their iPhones. And they're not gonna let Apple stop them. Beat the system: Jailbreak your iPhone.
Third - Using the phone on carriers other than AT&T. Let's face it. Apple has given ATT a monopoly with trying to tie all users who buy the iPhone to ATT. When you jailbreak, you've then got the option to unlock the phone and use it with whatever carrier you like.
Are There Any Drawbacks to Unlocking the iPhone?
1st)Apple, as a company, generally knows what it is doing. There are certain features that the iPhone is capable of, but that they have not enable. And this is usually for a reason. For instance, when you multitask, it is a huge drain on the battery. By using the default configuration, you'll know that your iPhone will just work. Period.
Second - Your iPhone could *potentially* become bricked. This happens when the unlock or jailbreak process gets interrupted or messed up somehow, and your iPhone is as useless as a brick until you restore it to factory settings (losing all of your date in the process).
Third - You can't update your phone with new releases of iTunes. New releases might have cool new features, but they also contain patches that will "un-jailbreak" your phone.
Fourth - The minute that you jailbreak your iPhone, the warranty is null and void. So if you accidentally brick it, or even drop it or something - you are on your own and stuck paying for any repairs out of pocket.
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