<story><title>Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?</title><url>https://isios7jailbrokenyet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phaer</author><text>Serious question: Why bother? Why is there such an interest in using a very closed system in a way the vendor does not support if there are (more) open alternatives?&lt;p&gt;Is it because you are forced to use an iPhone by external factors, like your employer? Are there critical features missing from Android and all the others? Is it just your personal preference?&lt;p&gt;I really don&amp;#x27;t mean to offend anyone, it&amp;#x27;s just that I perceive the closed ecosystem of the iPhone as an intentional &amp;quot;feature&amp;quot; and as I personally don&amp;#x27;t like it, I would never put my money into such a closed system just to try to jailbreak it afterwards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>While there’s still about zero percent chance of it happening in the near term, I have to think that long-term, Apple will port Gatekeeper to iOS. It’s a near-ideal balance of security on OS X: Non-technical users can stay in the walled garden of the Mac App Store, semi-technical users can allow signed binaries, and power users can run whatever they want.&lt;p&gt;I work in the mobile healthcare space, and right now, we’re starting to move away from iOS as a platform for future projects because of the restrictions and hassle of the App Store. We’re not making 99-cent games and artisan to-do lists, so the fact that iPhone users are far more likely to spend money on apps doesn’t matter to us – we need a platform that lets us communicate with medical devices and display information for healthcare professionals without a mercurial third party deciding what we can and can’t do.</text></comment>
<story><title>Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?</title><url>https://isios7jailbrokenyet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phaer</author><text>Serious question: Why bother? Why is there such an interest in using a very closed system in a way the vendor does not support if there are (more) open alternatives?&lt;p&gt;Is it because you are forced to use an iPhone by external factors, like your employer? Are there critical features missing from Android and all the others? Is it just your personal preference?&lt;p&gt;I really don&amp;#x27;t mean to offend anyone, it&amp;#x27;s just that I perceive the closed ecosystem of the iPhone as an intentional &amp;quot;feature&amp;quot; and as I personally don&amp;#x27;t like it, I would never put my money into such a closed system just to try to jailbreak it afterwards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hopp_check</author><text>I find it to be the most stable and usable of the platforms I&amp;#x27;ve seriously tried (iOS, Android, Blackberry). That said, there are a few power user features I like that aren&amp;#x27;t allowed by default: 
* F.lux
* FakeClockUp (to decrease animation times)
* Adblock
* Themes (because after 6 years of using them, smartphones look a bit boring)&lt;p&gt;I could get these on Android, but generally find that I must then sacrifice on form factor (I don&amp;#x27;t like very large phones), stability, build quality (this is getting better on Android though), and ease of use (Facetime with family, iMessage, etc.).&lt;p&gt;In the end it&amp;#x27;s not a single killer feature, but tight integration with my life. I might be able to do this all on Android, but it would take more time and probably more maintenance.</text></comment>