iPhone Jailbreaking: 10 Reasons Why It's a Bad Move
Found on eWEEK on Thursday, 05 August 2010
Although jailbreaking was common before, the ruling has set the stage for far more companies and individuals to find ways around Apple's iOS and allow users to potentially get more from their smartphones.
As nice as it might sound to get beyond Apple's restrictions, those rules are partially in place to protect users. Since the jailbreaking community has so far delivered few apps that justify going through the risky process, it seems that, at this point, doing so makes little sense.
What a ridiculous article. It looks like some Apple PR guys wrote it, scaremongering over the break and downplaying the benefits. It's amazing to read how the author tries to convince the reader that jailbreaks will cause tremendous security issues when exactly such issues make the break possible. From his point of view, security is only possible by locking down a device entirely, giving the manufacturer complete control over every program running on it. If this would be true, Open Source would not work.