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gadgetukJan 13, 2009
I'm struggling to understand this too. I'm happy to recommend the iPhone to friends and family because it is a nice product to use and looks cool. For a geek like me though it just lacks too many features, so I went for the Nokia N96. It can be a pain to dig through the interface sometimes and it is a brick, but that's the tradeoff.
robotbuddhaJan 13, 2009
Mine's backgrounder. I found myself lost in a town I wasn't familiar with a few days ago. I was happy to see that there were new episodes of a few podcasts I like. But I wouldn't have been able to listen to them during the walk because I'd have to stop listening every time I loaded up the map to keep track of where I was and where I was heading.
aquapeteJan 13, 2009
i have 5 pages full of apps that i dont really use ever. i dont need to jailbreak it to add a few more.
fugularityJan 13, 2009
FACT. Who the f**k is Steve Mobs anyways? FACT.
antdudeJan 13, 2009
How about DOS, MAME, etc.?
tomfrostJan 14, 2009
Keep bitching about people who say they try before they buy, but quite frankly, I'm done with trusting the damn descriptions and reviews. How much cash do you have to waste on s**t apps that you delete 15 minutes after your purchase before you give in and start trying things out first? Isn't there a top digg article *right now* about devs gaming the reviews and other stuff in the app store?No, pirates aren't magically going to start paying for software, but the wouldn't-be-pirates-otherwise do. Appulo.us (the site Installous goes to in its "browse" tab) just removed a bunch of dead links and now a lot of the apps that are left aren't the latest versions anymore. Inexplicably strong morals aren't the only reason to buy.
phrozen755Jan 14, 2009
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scottiedJan 15, 2009
The default iPhone icons and sounds are cool, but I prefer to have my iPhone be a little...D-I-F-F-E-R-E-N-Tthan the multitudes of others i bump into. That seals the dealio, along with my console emulators, terminal emulator, and 3g modem access.
kreatre2007Jan 15, 2009
How typical. No attention span. You're probably and idiot too. Your parents are probably idiots as well. It comes from upbringing.
johnnysoftwareNov 14, 2009
Well, did you check and see if they applications you mention are already in the iPhone store?It took me 5 seconds to find out that the Shazam app is in the iPhone store and you don't have to run any risk of getting hacked by cyberthieves to get/use it: <a class="user" href="http://www.shazam.com/music/web/pages/iphone.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.shazam.com/music/web/pages/iphone.html</a>I don't really get the idea, by the way, why the apps you mention HAVE to be programmed on a jail broken iPhone. Seems to be they can be programmed to run safely, using an undamaged iPhone.Can you explain why some of these applications you mentioned could never be programmed to run on an non jail broken iPhone?One of the apps you mentioned could wind up making people unhappy. Apple has not approved it for a reason. It puts Flash in your phone.Adobe's Flash has not been approved by Apple - and Adobe might not have even submitted it to Apple - because it breaks the part of the software license that forbids dynamic code generation.Adobe Flash is notoriously dangerous too. New exploits of their software comes out at least a couple of tmes each year and often before their is a security patch for it. Flash got to be so bad with being out of date too, letting in more bugs than current versions even - that Mozilla had to put up a special status page for plugins for Firefox users to use.Apple has taken pains to avoid making web browsing dangerous. Putting Adobe Flash into iPhone removes safety. Also, people believe that Flash is a resource pig and will drain the battery faster. Lots of Flash use is aslo associated with making browsers unstable.See, while you don't disclose points like that - both Adobe and Apple are aware of them. This is why Apple has not approved Flash for iPhone, and Adobe might not even have submitted it for approval.You wouldn't drink bootleg gin because it is dangerous and really not saving 50 cents at the risk of going blind. For the same reason it's not really worth jail breaking and installing dangerous apps onto the iPhone.People saying "use it, it's cool" must be wrong a fair amount of the time. After all, look what has gone on with IE/Flash on the Windows platform. You lay down with the same dogs, you are going to get up with the same fleas.People have already been hacked simply because they installed the jailbreak and did nothing else. So clearly, jail breaking introduces danger to the iPhone.You would not want any smart phone you own these days to get hacked/infected. It might be a bigger risk than having your computer infected - which these days can get your credit card drained or your bank account robbed. That could be possible with your smart phone too.But, thanks to built-in GPS software-readable GPS, phone that can be dialed by software, TCP/IP & web Internet communications in the phone, and contact information in the phone, it is not inconceivable that an app that would get you mugged in cities at night could not be written. Yes, it would NOT be approved by Apple as they do examination of the programs before putting them on the app store.How would you like to go clubbing in the nearest city some night and on your walk back to your car at 2:30 am, which you had to park far away when there were no parking spaces but lots of people around - your phone sends its GPS location to a web server, gets back a phone number to call that happens to belong to a gang of muggers one block away. They see your location "live" on their own cell phone's map. They come to you, pluck the phone out of your hand, no one is around, you have no cell phone - and then they take your money and do whatever they want to you.Far fetched? Not really. Not if no one has checked the app for you before you download it. If you are loading apps you get off the Internet directly into your cell phone, some pretty bad stuff could happen to you. By circumventing restrictions of the OS, which is what happened with the jailbreak-worm victims using only software provided by the jailbreak software guys - what is to stop someone from doing it?On any smart phone, if the apps are not verified by the cell phone maker and it is jail broken or there is not just no security to begin with. Some other cell phones have had viruses for them spreading between each other for like half a decade. They might be dangerous too.Apple is doing a big favor for you by setting up their phone and the iPhone app store the way they did.
johnnysoftwareNov 14, 2009
He is just saying he does not want his phone to stop working since he might need to use it which is why he bought it and pays for phone service. He probably does not want information stolen from it and to have it ask him for money which is what is happening to people who installed the jailbreak but not to people who didn't.
iamrotApr 5, 2011
If you need help jailbreaking or want to talk about your idevice join #iphone on Server EFNET IRC CHAT. If you dont know what that is google MIRC