Top Reasons I Jailbreak my iDevices
Jailbreaking has been a controversial issue with the Apple community since it began. I am going to share a few of the reasons why I, personally jailbreak my devices.
First, it allows so much freedom for the user to customize their device. For every technical thing Apple doesn’t allow or just didn’t put on the device there is a jailbreak to accommodate the user. Whatever you are looking to do with your device most likely can be accomplished through jailbreaking. For example, you can modify your device to look anyway you want it to look for your individuality. My phone or iPad doesn’t have to look anything like yours because of jailbreak. This is done by using themes from Cydia.
Apple limited the users usability by not allowing certain apps to be sold in the apple app store. This is the primary way Apple can keep certain features from being allowed on the idevice. I am going to list my top five reasons for jailbreaking. Although its hard to just pick one reason or one hundred reasons. But for the sake of space and writing I will list my top five primary reasons. All of the themes and apps listed below can be bought or obtained freely through Cydia.
1. Themes – by using themes we can customize the way our idevice looks from the lockscreen to the key pad and anything in between. For example here is a photo of the springboard of one of my favorite themes. This theme is called Unique HD.
2. You can add applications to your device that Apple doesn’t allow in their store. By using these applications you can add about any feature imaginable to your device. Here are a few of my favorite application from Cydia. MyWi, allows you to tether your ipad or laptop to your iphone. This has become quite controversial at the moment. If you are caught using this without a plan that allows you to tether. You could be charged a fee from your cell provider. Even with the fees it allows me to use my iPad 2 to surf the net over a 3G network. Without this application you can’t do this.
3. You can add more than twelve applications in each folder through Infinifolder. More than four
or five icons to your dock through, infinidock. Add more than sixteen icons to a page with infiniboard. These are great tweaks or customizations.
4. Games – if you are a gamer you can add emulators to get about any kind of Nintendo game available. I had composed a list of my favorite games that can be read here.
5. PKG Backup – allows you to backup your iphone in case you have to restore by having a backup you don’t have to download each application, theme, or tweak one at a time all over again. This will restore your device just as it was before the restore. So if you are going to jailbreak this application is a lif saver and can be purchased in Cydia for $7.99. It’s a little pricey but it will save you so mych time and frustration.
This is not even close to all the reasons I jailbreak my devices but it can give you an idea of whats available and some of the applications, themes, and freatures that jailbreaking adds to your idevice. If you have any questions feel free to comment. I also have tutorials on how to jailbreak and how to use these applications once you get them on your device. Visit me at https://iphonecaptain.com for in depth details. Thanks for reading.
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