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[LoganFegenbush]

So let's agree to call it "magical unicorn party." What an imbecilic response by Apple.

[CalHolfeld]

I don't get why this is a big issue with Apple. Really, just make sure people know you don't support jailbroke devices, if they muck it, get hacked and lose financial information or anything it can't fall back on Apple because they don't support it. So really, who cares.

[EminenceFronta0ah]

Typcial crApple methods: YOU CAN'T HAVE IT YOUR WAY - YOU WILL TAKE IT OUR WAY AND YOU WILL LIKE IT.

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!

[FU]

ow about calling it: Bustin' Outta Jail? They probably censor that too one they decode it.

[Evildave]

Why not 'root'? After all, it's what 'jailbreak' is, in this context. Looking up 'root iOS' or 'rooting iOS' will yield up all the same things.

[Dudeman44]

EminenceFronta0ah, on 17 May 2012 - 02:58 PM, said:

Typcial crApple methods: YOU CAN'T HAVE IT YOUR WAY - YOU WILL TAKE IT OUR WAY AND YOU WILL LIKE IT.

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!

You must spend a lot of your time finding any Apple story and spewing your 3rd grade hatred out there at every chance. You must be really jealous of their success! Too bad you can't accept the obvious.

[JeffChapmans7pn]

How about just making a phone that users (who paid good money for) can skin anyway they want, add cool gadgets - even swap out the keyboard if the wanted to.

<cough>Android<cough>

[QUADICON]

Evildave, on 17 May 2012 - 03:16 PM, said:

Why not 'root'? After all, it's what 'jailbreak' is, in this context. Looking up 'root iOS' or 'rooting iOS' will yield up all the same things.

That because the fools who wrote the pages dont understand they arent the same. Rooting anf Jailbreaking are done for very very different reasons.
Jailbreaking allows you to install applications from sources like Cydia. You don't need to root and Android device to do this. All you have to do is change a single security setting. Jailbreaking allows you to theme the UI. Rooting is not required to do this on Android devices period. Jailbreaking is required to activated features like file transfer over BT abd previously to bring WiFi hotspot capability to iPhone. Rooting is not required to have this function on any Android device.

Rooting is only needed when users want to install custom firmwares for devices carriers and phone makers have all but abandoned to receive updated versions of Android that contain new features users may want. Apple suaully supports older devices with newer firmwares, even if it means stripping out or intentionally leaving out features to get you to buy a newer device.

No matter what you claim, rooting and jailbreaking are as different as a man is from a women. Yes we share SOME similarities, but we simply are not the same. That is a fact YOU can't change.

Good Evening Dave...lol

[QUADICON]

Dudeman44, on 17 May 2012 - 03:28 PM, said:

EminenceFronta0ah, on 17 May 2012 - 02:58 PM, said:

Typcial crApple methods: YOU CAN'T HAVE IT YOUR WAY - YOU WILL TAKE IT OUR WAY AND YOU WILL LIKE IT.

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!

You must spend a lot of your time finding any Apple story and spewing your 3rd grade hatred out there at every chance. You must be really jealous of their success! Too bad you can't accept the obvious.

Its amazing how if someone speaks up against something apple does they have to be haters, but if you are saying similar about another platform, its just objective criticism.

I wonder what you all are going to do when Apple is no longer a major player in any market. 1997 is soon to repeat itself. Apple will be reduced to a phone maker who still trys to sell a PC, the vast majority of the palnet still doesn't want.

Apple has nerve to censor use of words. If APple allowed the fair amount of freedom all platforms offer, they wouldn't have to worry about jailbreaking. If Microsoft did just a tad of the [censored] Apple does now, the Feds would be all
over them in a manner of seconds.

[Evildave]

QUADICON: The difference is all in your head.

Rooting is rooting, for any OS. Even though the 'root' account under windoze is 'Administrator'.

http://www.retrologi...gon/R/root.html

Both Android and iOS take their roots from POSIX, which describes UNIX. That means root is root for either platform.

The term, 'rooting' is obtaining root.

Here's a nice article explaining why you MUST change the root password, after 'jailbreaking' an iPhone.
http://lifehacker.co...jailbreaking-it

BTW, the ability to change a root password requires root level privileges. So jailbreaking is rooting. Q.E.D.

The rest is you making up your own vocabulary definitions, or blindly cleaving to someone else's bad definitions.

[crosswordbob]

QUADICON, on 17 May 2012 - 04:03 PM, said:

Dudeman44, on 17 May 2012 - 03:28 PM, said:

EminenceFronta0ah, on 17 May 2012 - 02:58 PM, said:

Typcial crApple methods: YOU CAN'T HAVE IT YOUR WAY - YOU WILL TAKE IT OUR WAY AND YOU WILL LIKE IT.

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!

You must spend a lot of your time finding any Apple story and spewing your 3rd grade hatred out there at every chance. You must be really jealous of their success! Too bad you can't accept the obvious.

Its amazing how if someone speaks up against something apple does they have to be haters, but if you are saying similar about another platform, its just objective criticism.

Nope—they are haters if virtually everything they post is a mindless tirade against a single company, regardless of logic. EminenceFrontah0ah's posting history makes it quite clear that he has no more interest in objectivity than do you.

[Nuke61]

QUADICON, on 17 May 2012 - 04:00 PM, said:

Evildave, on 17 May 2012 - 03:16 PM, said:

Why not 'root'? After all, it's what 'jailbreak' is, in this context. Looking up 'root iOS' or 'rooting iOS' will yield up all the same things.

That because the fools who wrote the pages dont understand they arent the same. Rooting anf Jailbreaking are done for very very different reasons.

They are only done for different reasons because Android locked down as tightly as iOS, but they are exactly the same things. For instance, on my DInc2 the ability to use the phone as a hotspot is restricted by either HTC or Verizon. My guess is that it's Verizon because they want to charge me to use hotspot capability -- even though I know it's built into Android. iOS also locks down UI custmization while Android doesn't, but that's only because of decisions made by Google and Apple. However, decisions made by Google can be changed by the hardware MFRs or Carriers, as was done with my DInc2 hotspot capability. Just like Android, you can get custom iOS roms, but they aren't popular.