Daily Archives: August 30, 2011

30 reasons to jailbreak your iDevice

One may headline this with “If you don’t have a jailbreak, you don’t have a jailbreak”.

CydiaSome of you might already have their iDevice jailbreaked. One may do so for a variety of reasons.

I won’t comment on reasons like being able to download AppStore apps “in another way”.

This was never something I preferred and I’ll never will either.

From my perspective time’s changed when it comes to the decision whether to jailbreak or not. Without question: At the early days of iOS a jailbreak was mandatory for most of the users.

At the latest with upcoming iOS 5 things changed from my perspective. Since I’m owning an unlocked iPhone I skipped jailbreaking due to let’s call it laziness. I just wanted to get away from the need to wait until I update to a new iOS version because there was no Jailbreak available yet. So from MY perspective one should not be to dependent on a Cydia app.

iguitardude2744 just released a video of his most favored Cydia tweaks in 2011.

Top 30 Cydia Tweaks of 2011

Those are very impressive and also useful additions to the stock functionality. From my perspective I’m gonna stick to my “no-jailbreak-anymore” way.

What about you guys? Are you still jailbreaking your iDevices? If yes: For what reason? Leave your thoughts in the comments.