It's not a short answer. I think the reason people jailbreak falls into one of two camps. Camp one are those people who feel there's a few too many restrictions on their phones, and want a bit more power. As someone who is not jailbroken, I read with envy all of the things you can do with a jailbroken phone: send and receive texts from your computer using your web browser of choice, block specific callers or texters and set up specific rules for how certain numbers are handled, set up lots of quick ways to get where you want to be such as opening your radio app by holding down the volume button for a few seconds, open apps and toggle settings using your voice, and so on. Basically, it turns your device into a mini computer and there is a whole host of genuine benefits that you can have.
The other camp are unlockers: people who want to use their GSM phones on other carriers. To be clear, there's no reason at all for locking phones other than control--it's totally arbitrary, and even illegal now in some countries such as New Zealand. So I don't blame people for wanting to unlock their phones. I have heard from others on this list that jailbreaking somehow makes your device vulnerable, but there is little empirical data that I have seen which corroborates this: unless, just as with a PC or a MAC, you install a viscious or insecure app. In fact, non-jailbroken iPhones have security concerns as well. You are right though, that if you need warranty service and you walk into your local Apple store with a jailbroken iPhone, they will of course not fix it for you. Grant On 5/12/12, CD <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure this question is for the list but why would someone jailbreak > their phone? Don't you lose all of the warrantees on it if you do that? > Just curious. > > > > Carla > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
