Hi there Troy. Jailbreaking is a way that you can gain access to all a lot more things in your iPhone that Apple normally keeps from the typical user. Jailbreaking is not for everyone. So it is not fair to say that jailbreaking is good or bad. As an accessibility trainer, I do not recommend jailbreaking to new users of the iPhone. Instead I like to show my clients how they can take full advantage of the iPhone as it is. Some people might say that jailbreaking is illegal. This is not the case. However it is true that if you jailbreak your iPhone, Apple will not support you. In short, it will void the warranty. If your iPhone is still under warranty and you need it serviced, you can always restore and get rid of the jailbreak. Everything will go back to the way it was. Just like doing any sort of software restore, you will have to make sure and restore from a backup of your phone so that all your apps and settings will go back to the way they were. This of course would be minus the jailbreak apps. When you have a jailbroken phone you can still use apps from the app store like normal. In addition however there is an app which allows you to get jailbreak only apps and tweaks. Some jailbreak apps and tweaks are free and some are paid. So it is very similar to the normal App Store. The best thing for you to do is go to Google and do a search for what is jailbreaking. Or do a search for advantages of jailbreaking. The list archives here also have a lot of messages concerning jailbreaking and some of the good and bad. If you have more questions, feel free to ask. However I definitely recommend doing that Google search and maybe looking in the list archives since many of those questions will be answered there.
Good luck. On Mar 6, 2013, at 6:27 PM, "Troy Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > Can someone explain or direct me to help me find out what this jail broken > stuff is all about? > Thanks. > -- > 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 Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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 Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
