Saturday, December 3, 2011

Jailbreaking the iPod Touch what do you think?

The iPod Touch is a another fabulous product put out by Apple Computer. It's basically an iPhone that can't call and it won't use any type of 3G only wifi networks for communications. But, you can get the full Internet and use all the tools in the Apple App store with the iPod Touch that you can with the iPhone. However people have found that they can make thier iPod touch do more things and they are able to have more control and use different apps and such by hacking the phone called Jailbreaking. However with all of that Apple keeps a tight rein on what can and can't be done with the iPhone or the iPod touch. So a cottage industry has built up around Jail breaking your iPhone or iPod touch and it allows your phone or your iPod touch to do more things than it could do than when  it came with factory settings. If you Google jailbreak iPod touch you get over 40,000,000 results you read that right forty million results so this has become a pretty big industry. Everything from companies offering you their own jailbreaking services to ebooks to videos etc. All the way down to just directions on a web page on how to do it yourself. It's interesting how Apple has tried to combat this they have tried everything from patches to new OS's all to no avail. Recently when I bought my new iPhone 4S I was even asked to sign one of their electronic documents that basically says hey I won't hack their phone. Now I don't know about the whole their phone thing. I just paid a lot of money for that phone but I personally leave my iPhone stock from the factory. If you go on the different Apple or Mac forums when the new iPhone or iPod Touch comes out it's like a race to see who can be the first hacker to jailbreak it.
     So, what do you think? Do you have an Apple phone or iPod that is jail broken? If so what other tools does it allow to have that the stock phone doesn't and are you happy you jailbroke your phone?  Like I said earlier I don't like the whole Apple thing about this is our phone after someone just bought it how do you feel about that? Leave your answers in the comments area.

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