It's just great to be able to break free. And the fact that it is now less and less likely that you can brick your phone, it is very attractive.
Who says that only unauthorised apps can spread malware? I personally hate that sense of control that comes with iPhones and the like.
Your blog post will play to much hilarity here downunder. (Root me!) Hahaha.
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Phones are sold in the shops owed by mobile operators. People usually buy the phones for symbolical price (say 1 euro), and sign a contract of staying with the operator for the specified time, usually a year or two. Phone sold that way are programmatically tied to the operator in question, or "locked".
If you decide to pay the full price for the phone, however, it's unlocked (or "jailbroken") for you by the salesclerk.
If you decide to pay the full price for the phone, however, it's unlocked (or "jailbroken") for you by the salesclerk.
There is a difference between jailbreaking and unlocking an iPhone. Carriers lock phones to thier own networks to protect their return on investment for subsidies phones on contracts. Jaibreaking bypasses the manufacturers security controls, enabling the install of apps not purchased via the Apple AppStore, but at the expense of security (the "walled garden"). In Australia you can buy an "unlocked" phone from Apple to connect to any carrier, but it is certainly not jailbroken. Whether one needs to jailbreak their iPhone to gain acces to the carrier restriction locks is another matter, to that question, I don't know the answer.
Thats why I bought a Nokia, with an very stable OS whith its all features completely unlocked. Many times my friends who have a iPhone envy my freedom... I don't understand why pay so much for a gadget with so many restrictions...
... under conditions I've described in my previous post. That's fair enough, though, because it's not entirely yours until it's paid for. Basically, it's like a leased car.
It has been my burden to support smartphones as IT administrator and so far it is the lazyness and cumbersome carriers which is the reason I have had to use a Custom ROM, or root all of our phones.
Windows Mobile: Phone was released with 5.1 and had security issues resolved with a service pack. Carrirer released a new phone rather than a software update. We had 2 years to wait till that could happen, and the new phone was worse hardware than the old. Within a week the custom rom developers had built a updated rom and we had it running nearly a month later after the carrier account rep verified that a patch would not be released.
Nearly every phone revision we have had suffered greatly security wise because the CARRIER failed to update the phones. The third party commuinity has almost always patched security holes faster than the carriers have.
If carriers want users to not have to root or run third party roms they must have a development team willing to support the phone for the 2 year contract life with "timely" updates then many users would not feel the need to go off on their own.
There are those who are cheap and want new features or never to be availible features now, but those power users will always want it "my way", built themselves.
Windows Mobile: Phone was released with 5.1 and had security issues resolved with a service pack. Carrirer released a new phone rather than a software update. We had 2 years to wait till that could happen, and the new phone was worse hardware than the old. Within a week the custom rom developers had built a updated rom and we had it running nearly a month later after the carrier account rep verified that a patch would not be released.
Nearly every phone revision we have had suffered greatly security wise because the CARRIER failed to update the phones. The third party commuinity has almost always patched security holes faster than the carriers have.
If carriers want users to not have to root or run third party roms they must have a development team willing to support the phone for the 2 year contract life with "timely" updates then many users would not feel the need to go off on their own.
There are those who are cheap and want new features or never to be availible features now, but those power users will always want it "my way", built themselves.
In Australia "Rooting" = having sex!
Why would anyone want to have sex with a phone?
Why would anyone want to have sex with a phone?
if an app is running with root privs, it can completely destroy the system if it's exploited.
No app should be running as root by default.
they should all be written to not require such privs.
No app should be running as root by default.
they should all be written to not require such privs.
The article says that jailbreaking is the first step to unlocking a smartphone. I would like to unlock an Iphone. Do I have to jailbreak it first? I did not think so.
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