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Originally Posted by Russic
Jesus H ... Is there anything else about my situation (that you know nothing about) that you'd like to clear up for me? I suppose having a phone that needs charging once per day that suddenly can't make it to 11am the day after a jailbreak is all in my head hey? You're right ... I probably just subconsciously blocked all those times that I had to recharge 4 times in a single day.
In my opinion cydia is enormously cluttered and is terribly designed. It's not worth arguing because it's obviously a matter of personal preference.
I see I also lied about my wifi working. You're probably right ... these here gosh-darned iPhones are just so complicated I up and forgot how to make the wifi work! So strange that it also happened the day after I jailbroke too! What do you suppose the odds are?
If I've lied about anything else I'd appreciate it if you could enlighten me.
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I'll play devils advocate here. I've been running a jailbroke iPhone for 2 years. I bought mine in the US before the iPhone came to Canada, so I have no choice but to jailbrake to use it. I've never had any problems like you are describing. I am not saying you didn't have those problems, I don't doubt you did, I'm just saying. I'll totally agree that cydia is clunky, ugly and hard to navigate. But everything involved with jail breaking is fighting against the software, no? I'm sure if Apple opened up the iPhone these apps would work better.
Personally I am fine with Apple locking down their device. I think everyone knows that going into it. I only do it because it's the only way to get it to work for me. If I could restore it to normal I would. I've tried customizing it with skins and such and it was a pain and I don't really want to geek out that much with it. It's a small piece of hardware and I understand putting limitations on it. If people want to do geeky things on their phone they should not buy Apple.
However I don't like what Apple is doing with the app store. I totally support their decision to not allow certain apps into their store. I just don't like how they are doing it. Not having a set of rules for the app store is dumb. Randomly dropping adult themed apps was dumb. Like photon said there is no security for developers. Right now Apple has the security of having the largest app store to protect them from actions like this. But if the android market starts to catch up developers could flock to it because they won't have to worry about them suddenly banning boobs, or not liking the icon or being low functioning, etc. Developers will be mad if their app, that they put lots of time into, suddenly gets banned because Jobs doesn't like it. It could end up hurting us iPhone users.