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Default Jailbreaking iPhone...the saga continues...

On 2/16/13 9:09 AM, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:27:20 -0500, Meyer wrote:

There are Android apps for all of that stuff.


That is because Android is an open OS. Anyone can write an Android ap.

Apple is a closed OS and if Steve Jobs didn't think you needed it, you
couldn't have it ... hence the jailbreak.


Yup, exactly the reason I am fully vested in Android technology, open
source.


I liked my rooted Android phone when I had it. In terms of usefulness, I
don't see much difference between the Android phones and iPhones. I am
not "drowning" in apps.

I do wish the engineers and manufacturers of these phones would spend
more time on improving the "phone" aspect and less time on the non-phone
gimmickry.



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