The fact that a lot of ordinary people jailbreak their iPhones shows that
openness is something that they at least want - it's not that easy to
jailbreak since Apple keeps closing the loopholes, but there's a lot of
demand for DIY and commercial jailbreaks.
Posted Jan 6, 2010 16:22 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
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For the people that I know that use their iPhone the ability to jailbreak it
is a requirement for making the phone useful. This may not be typical, but
certainly eliminating the troublesome restrictions creates a huge increase
in the utility of the thing.