How did the discussion about whether or not the iPhone has a LED become "Apple knows what's best for me"? A bit of a quantum leap, isn't it?
The thoughts struck me, so I wrote them down. I'm very new to iOS and iMore, so I just blurted out my thoughts on the current thread. It wasn't really going anywhere, anyway, as so many have pointed out.
You can put OnStar functionality on a Ford with an aftermarket product. Similarly, there is at least one aftermarket iPhone case that provides the LED functionality.
This comment was based of someone else's earlier comment that "if you like OnStar, you don't like Ford", or something along those lines. My point was only that choice is a good thing. You can like Ford AND OnStar, and you're not a horrible person for doing so.
Apple's effort to stop Jailbreaking? It's more like Apple working to close security holes to make the device more secure. It just happens to be a fact that the jailbreak process HAS TO take advantage of a hole in the software in order to install the codes/substrate/hooks to allow full blown jailbreak. But the whole jailbreak discussion would take this thread way off topic.
Agreed. It's been discussed elsewhere.
That's never going to happen with any phone. All you get it what they want you to have. You want more than that? You have to find a way (enter jailbreaking and rooting). Like Henry Ford said, you can have it in any color, as look as you choose black.
Palm did it with webOS. Enter the Konami code, and you had developer unlock. Palm supported homebrew apps/patching. It was great to have the freedom to customize my phone just they way I wanted it. If you didn't want to open yourself up to the sometimes unstable world of patching and homebrew, then you didn't have to dev unlock. It's easy to give people that choice.
Just because we accept things as Apple (or whatever manufacturer) makes them doesn't make us "borgs"... it just goes back to "it just works".
But, it doesn't work for everybody, and it could work better. My Cydia apps and tweaks make my iPhone work better for ME. Without it, there are many things that don't "just work". Like removing Newsstand - it does not work. Downloading a large app on 3G? That does not work. (It's my data plan, WTF does Apple care how I download it?)
I do appreciate the stability of iOS, but I have noticed no degrading of that stability post-jailbreak. I have realized the full potential of my iPhone, however. As nice as iOS, it could be so much more. I think Apple could crush the last breath out of its competition if it decided to lend a hand to the jailbreak community.
Like with anything in life, you get choices. And you get to vote with your wallet.
I did vote with my wallet (webOS), but that horse is out of the race. Now, I'm stuck choosing the next best thing, and a jailbroken iPhone is pretty darn close.