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Comment by vgb2k11

Hi Saurik, my reasoning was obviously not very well researched; actually I can see its a damaging assumption for the PR of jailbreaking when I (or the public in general) makes assumptions that jailbreaking is strongly linked to game piracy, so its appreciated you were able to clarify.

I personally have held my iPad back on iOS 9 for the reason that maybe some day I could jailbreak and install another OS, home brew apps etc. but I made a generalization about piracy I guess because I did see a bunch of demand for that in 2010-2012 which shows you how out of date my iOS knowledge is (since I have not jailbroken any devices between then and now). By the way, thanks for Cydia :) its synonymous in my mind for any discussion about jailbreaking and iOS.

I just think there is some demand for jailbreaking, and lack of public demand isn't a significant explanation for lack of jailbreaking progress on iOS 10/11. I mean, there is no clear argument I've seen yet which establishes a link between public demand and frequency of jailbreaks; after all it only takes a single determined developer/hacker to craft an exploit and deploy it for reasons not connected to public demand.

parent vgb2k11 9 years ago

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