IMPORTANT: iPhoneFunTips.com does not endorse any illegal or unethical activities. We are not sure whether some of the purposes for the “jailbreaking” advocated by the guest blogger in this article are ethical or legal. Some appear to be clearly illegal.
Certainly you are entitled to modify a phone that you own. However, we do not condone or recommend doing anything to evade payment for purchased apps (which is theft) or any other illegal or unethical activities.
We are running this article as a matter of information and because some of the activities described, such as changing themes, wallpapers, etc, are clearly OK.
Notice that the “cons” listed can be serious and should serve as a warning. The biggest con of all is that if you conduct illegal activities such as evading payment for paid apps (which is theft), you could be arrested and serve years in prison.
By a Guest Blogger
Jailbreaking is a process that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to run unofficial code on their devices bypassing Apple’s official distribution mechanism, the App Store.
Whenever we hear that , once we jailbreak we could download all the paid apps for free, there is an urge to jailbreak. But the negatives about jailbreaking hold us back! So, I am going to list down some of the positives and negatives about jailbreaking.
Pros
1. Paid Apps—Jailbreaking allows you to download all the piad apps from the app store for free.You just cannot do that without jailbreaking because jailbreaking changes the payload.
2.Customize—After jailbreaking, winterboard can be used to customize your itouch/iphone. you could change wallpapers, fonts, apply new themes etc.
3 SSH—Jailbreaking also allows you to SSH into your itouch/iphone. With this you could explore all the contents of the itouch/iphone via the internet.
4.Internet Tethering—It allows you to surf the internet on your iphone by using the computer’s internet.
5. Removes restrictions from Apple.
6. Reversibility—If you do not like the jailbreak, you could do a restore from iTunes to get it back to normal.
Cons
1. There is a 0.1 percent chance that you may brick your itouch/iphone.
2. It voids your warranty (but you could do a restore to get it back).
3. You cannot upgrade to the latest firmware release by Apple instantly.
4. You could get the ikee worm or its variants(but if you just change your root password, you won’t get it).
So now its upon you to decide whether to jailbreak or not!
TO KNOW HOW TO JAILBREAK OR IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER PROS OR CONS, JUST POST IN YOUR COMMENTS!
