JailBreak now legal ...

[DogdySnigwirter]

iPhone Jailbreal legal ...

[janobi]

Apple have also responded to this:

?Apple?s goal has always been to insure that our customers have a great experience with their iPhone and we know that jailbreaking can severely degrade the experience. As we?ve said before, the vast majority of customers do not jailbreak their iPhones as this can violate the warranty and can cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably.?


It?s short and sweet: Apple wants to control the iPhone experience to keep things simple and stable. Jailbreaking opens the door to software that can ruin that experience (and maybe steal your identity or spread viruses). For more information about Apple?s stance on jailbreaking, see this support document: Unauthorized modification of iOS has been a major source of instability, disruption of services, and other issues.

It does, however, answer the main question I had: does jailbreaking void the warranty? Yes, it does.

The other question I had is whether Apple will sue companies that publish or market jailbreaking software?

The spokeswoman would only say on background that Apple hasn?t in the past prosecuted such companies or individuals.

Now that jailbreaking is explicitly legal ? at least for individual consumers ? it?s not unreasonable to think the jailbreaking scene may become a little less underground. It may even prompt a cottage industry of unofficial App Stores, like the unofficial app store Cydia and the now-defunct Icy.

There are an estimated 10 million jailbroken devices out there, which represents a pretty big market for developers. Maybe legitimate software companies will publish jailbreaking software, instead of shady rings of underground hackers? And maybe the will become a healthy market for unofficial and banned apps. They will never have the marketing clout of the official App Store, but it?s not hard to imagine software vendors marketing software that Apple rejects as ?the app Apple doesn?t want you to have.?

[pLaYa.5]

Great info, keep it up!

[pawliukazz]

All in all: Jailbreaking is legal and you won't need to pay fine, but it voids the apples warrantly...

[janobi]

All in all: Jailbreaking is legal and you won't need to pay fine, but it voids the apples warrantly...

Only in the US. And apple says "it may" and not "it will". There is a massive difference, you can simply restore your phone to factory settings in itunes, so I dont understand how it can be voided.

[pawliukazz]

Well maybe, but i'm pretty sure there is mentioned in terms and condisions of using iphone and itunes about jailbreaking. And by doing jailbreak you modify the software which is probablu against the authority law or something. So i can ensure, if apple wanted, it could legally blacklist all jailbroken iphones...

[janobi]

Well maybe, but i'm pretty sure there is mentioned in terms and condisions of using iphone and itunes about jailbreaking. And by doing jailbreak you modify the software which is probablu against the authority law or something. So i can ensure, if apple wanted, it could legally blacklist all jailbroken iphones...

Firstly they would need to patch the exploit, then they would need to work out how people are jailbreaking, and a way to firstly detect it, then to stop it.

They cannot legally blacklist anyone, especially in the US. You do not modify anything when JB, just run some unsigned code in the background, which then allows you to connect to Cydia, which then acts as an apps store.

As I said, if you want to restore to factory you do it in itunes, so you could do that even if you wanted to send phone back.

So I dont see how they could blacklist the phone, or how you can void your warraty.

[bansnazz]

nice! now i feel better about jailbreaking my iphone

[hbstun]

yes law are chaned and u can do what u want with your iphone

[stealthier]

Firstly they would need to patch the exploit, then they would need to work out how people are jailbreaking, and a way to firstly detect it, then to stop it.

They cannot legally blacklist anyone, especially in the US. You do not modify anything when JB, just run some unsigned code in the background, which then allows you to connect to Cydia, which then acts as an apps store.

As I said, if you want to restore to factory you do it in itunes, so you could do that even if you wanted to send phone back.

So I dont see how they could blacklist the phone, or how you can void your warraty.

I have my iPhone JB for almost a year and there is a lot around this matter, because some say that there are legal rights of the application makers to hunt you down. But today i think everything can be hacked and there aren't lots to be done avoiding it. So as said you can restore to factory settings and never lose warranty...

[hkirov]

well in my last visit to the apple store there was one kid with JB iphone, he forgot to restore before taking it for repairs and the screwed him with the warranty. i felt so bad for him.

[hkirov]

i cant wait for the new Nokia N8 so i can get rid of my crappy Iphone.

[maloni]

this is the best news ever for developers of the Apps

[iRik]

where I can find official JB?

[maca]

google it..