I remember back in the day when people would “Jailbreak” iPhones, but never really picked up on what they were doing other than that it let them do stuff that those of us with “non-jailbroken” iPhones couldn’t do.

Are they just booting another OS, e.g. android? Also: why haven’t I heard of it in a while? Is it not possible on newer iPhones?

  • Falmarri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    This is all such bullshit and just justifies apple’s locking down of their phones for their own profit. You have root access on your macbook, a phone is no different except that companies felt like they could force people to buy through their app stores. There is 0 difference between allowing people root on their phone versus on their computer.

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      To be fair, @d00phy did say that

      They also started actively working to stop folks jailbreaking. That part, I thought, was too much. Just tell them they void the warranty by jailbreaking and refuse support.

      I think it’s fair to void support for someone that goes ham in the terminal and breaks a bunch of shit, at least if you explicitly state that doing so will void support. You have root access on your macbook, but I assume the average person using it knows more about what they’re doing than the average person jailbreaking their phone (which was pretty much anyone as far as I can remember). Also: If you tell support that you opened the terminal and typed a bunch of stuff and now your macbook is broken, I assume support is likely to tell you “tough luck…”

      • Falmarri@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I think voiding support is only reasonable if it’s directly related to the jailbreak. Not fixing a hardware issue because you rooted is total bullshit

    • nittiyh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I am super scared that they eventually start locking down macOS too. I agree that it makes little sense that they do it for one platform and not the other, and I don’t see them ever backing down on it for the iPhone, so… hopefully they never feel like making that consistent across OSes.

      • thebestaquaman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I can definitely see them leaving macOS alone though. I can’t imagine anyone would buy a macbook to use for development if they don’t have root access, while, as far as I know, nobody buys iPhones or iPads to develop anything. If they do it would only be for testing purposes, which I assume should be fine without root access, as you’re developing for an end-user that doesn’t have root access.