I don't know how well that will work out for some of Apple's proprietary chips. Lots of off the shelf parts, yes, but not everything; maybe not some of the crucial components needed to boot properly.
Like people can reverse engineer things, but till there was a permanent exploit like this, I am sure the effort did not make as much sense. Like you first need an exploit that lets you load a non apple OS. Moreover you hope it effects enough devices that your efforts will be used by a lot people.
I haven’t jail broken a phone since the 3G, I just don’t see a compelling reason to anymore. The reason I did it then was to get around the tethering restrictions that att had at the time, but now I can’t really think of any features that I would want my phone to have that it doesn’t already.
It's simple but I'd like ssh to phone home. I don't see a reason to trust an app. Otherwise Apple put in most everything else I used (like SBSettings etc).
I thought you could sideload self-built apps onto an iPhone these days. I mean, it has some restrictions, but at least it doesn't require forking over $99.
I'm assuming most jailbreakers probably don't want to enable piracy, but just want to use apps that Apple won't compete with fairly - like Steam game streaming, or a browser built with an alternate engine like chromium.
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[ 5.5 ms ] story [ 41.7 ms ] thread-sideload apps that cant get to the app store, not just for piracy,example :file manager, adblocker, firewall ...
Sure its doable without a jailbreak, but its restricted and require paying apple a yearly $100 developer fee
And some few extra cydia tweaks can be really usefull