With no new jailbreaks in a while, is anyone really missing them these days?

[jsntrenkler]

I stopped caring about jailbreaking right after the first time I did my 3G, never really saw the attraction. (Yawn)

There were some pretty good hacks out for iOS 6, I liked being able to download files directly to my device to store for later ... Perhaps someday apple will get the sandbox sorted so we can do it natively.

 

[Allen Burack]

I just want to be able to unlock my 5c so that when I travel over seas I can use a local sim.

 

[yzjustdatguy]

I don't miss the jailbreak as much but I do miss having features like biteSMS, abilities to speed up the OS a little, status bar enhancements and theming of course. If I had the option to go back to iOS 6.1.2 for the jailbreak I definitely would though

 

[ZanKuvy]

There is no jail break because there is no reason to do it anymore, it's not that's impossible to do, there is simply no demand for it.

 

[Massie]

There is no jail break because there is no reason to do it anymore, it's not that's impossible to do, there is simply no demand for it.

Completely untrue. There is both plenty of demand and plenty of work being done to make it happen.

 

[mikeo007]

My iPad is still jailbroken. The only tweaks I have are the WebGL enabler and the one that lets 3rd party apps use the Nitro JS engine rather than the slow version that they're forced to use by default.

My phone on the other hand, I ditched the jailbreak as soon as I saw the first iOS 7 beta. I don't honestly think there's anything that it needs from a jailbreak at this time.

 

[rdiddy_25]

There is no jail break because there is no reason to do it anymore, it's not that's impossible to do, there is simply no demand for it.

Couldn't be further from the truth

 

[neurodave]

I can't say I don't miss being jailbroken, but I just don't care much anymore. Before, I would follow the status of the jailbreaks religiously and as soon as it became available, I was on it like white on bread. Now, if it comes it comes, if it doesn't, oh well....

 

[BreakingKayfabe]

I don't even care anymore.

 

[Massie]

I can't say I don't miss being jailbroken, but I just don't care much anymore. Before, I would follow the status of the jailbreaks religiously and as soon as it became available, I was on it like white on bread. Now, if it comes it comes, if it doesn't, oh well....

This is pretty much how I feel these days.

 

[ZanKuvy]

Couldn't be further from the truth

Then, where is the jailbreak? I should have said that it was the way I feel, not that there is no actual demand for it, but, it seems that, with iOS 7 and all it's goodies, people just don't care that much anymore about messing with their devices because they are satisfied (most of them) with what they have, at least that's the way I perceive it and I include myself in that list.

 

[Massie]

Then, where is the jailbreak? I should have said that it was the way I feel, not that there is no actual demand for it, but, it seems that, with iOS 7 and all it's goodies, people just don't care that much anymore about messing with their devices because they are satisfied (most of them) with what they have, at least that's the way I perceive it and I include myself in that list.

Jailbreaks commonly take months of work before they appear in public...iOS 7 is still a very new OS. Remember, iOS 6 was released in September (just like iOS 7)but the evasi0n jailbreak wasn't released until the following February.

 

[anon(3733516)]

I don't really see a reason to jailbreak, personally.

 

[anon(8221395)]

But to be honest, I personally don't like that look at all. iOS 7 looks a lot better to me. Even when I had my jailbroken iPhone 4, all I used were tweaks. I don't ever get themes because I think they just look tacky. The tweaks are awesome and I can't wait for the jailbreak for iOS 7. I can only imagine all the cool little things we'll be able to do. But if you like it, awesome. It's your phone.

I agree with you.

 

[ninjamattic]

I quit jailbreaking after iOS 5. The features I used to jailbreak for had already been mainline into the OS, and I just didn't see the point anymore.

 

[rayz336]

Personally, I can't wait for a jailbreak to be released. BiteSMS alone was a good enough reason for me to be jailbroken.

 

[natasftw]

Then, where is the jailbreak? I should have said that it was the way I feel, not that there is no actual demand for it, but, it seems that, with iOS 7 and all it's goodies, people just don't care that much anymore about messing with their devices because they are satisfied (most of them) with what they have, at least that's the way I perceive it and I include myself in that list.

You perceive it because you don't understand it. On older devices, there was a bootrom exploit. That made new nailbreaks much easier to complete. The exploit allowed jailbreakers to inject code before the os had the chance to enable security features, including the sandbox.

Apple encrypts and hides the bootrom to take this ability away. This leaves jailbreakers looking for a series of bugs to exploit to gain access to the phone. The problem with needing a group of bugs to gain access is Apple doesn't need to fix them all to break the method being used. You can see this with 6.1.3. They fixed enough such that it broke evasi0n, but not so much that the older devices couldn't still run the semi-tethered jailbreak.

As the new iOS is released, bugs get cleaned up. Code isn't completely rewritten with each new iOS. This means fixing the bug in iOS 5 often means the bug won't reappear in iOS 6 or 7 etc. This reduces the area one can find bugs. Functionality that has existed has been scoured by both apple and jailbreakers. Useful bugs are less likely to exist in these areas. That doesn't mean they can't. Look at evasi0n using the area media is transferred to as an example. It just means if there are any useful bugs, they won't likely exist in updates.

All of this means it's more difficult to jailbreak each new iOS. You can't simply claim it takes longer so therefore nobody is trying. It SHOULD take longer. As far as demand, the iOS 6 jailbreak took roughly five months. How many millions downloaded it in the first 24 hours? That's a good indication that a long time to jailbreak isn't representative of limited demand.

I'm curious what your perception is based on. It's certainly not founded on an understanding of either demand or process.

 

[mynameis]

I agree with you.

Themes are just not my thing. Now, when I had android phones I would get some themes sometimes. But, I would take them off pretty promptly.

 

[anon(8221395)]

Themes are just not my thing. Now, when I had android phones I would get some themes sometimes. But, I would take them off pretty promptly.

Yea, android had too many themes and launcher options. You could spend hours setting up a new theme and then realize you don't like the launcher and then start all over with a new launcher. It got to be too much. Sometimes less is more.

 

[rayz336]

Yea, android had too many themes and launcher options. You could spend hours setting up a new theme and then realize you don't like the launcher and then start all over with a new launcher. It got to be too much. Sometimes less is more.

It's always nice to have the option to customize in my opinion