Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Why you should jailbreak your iPhone


I finally took some time to check why my cookies were not saved on the iPhone embedded Safari. It appears that it's a bug that came with the 1.1.4 firmware, a stupid write permission missing, something that takes few seconds to fix on an open platform.
Unfortunately the iPhone is a closed platform if you don't do anything and you can't fix that bug yourself, you need to wait on Apple to get a new version of the firmware. Not everybody is affected by this bug so i don't know the whole story behind, what i know is that when you have that bug it's very annoying.

Anyway, i was always wondering if i would jailbreak it (open it, against the will of Apple) if i had an iPhone the "standard way", the answer is "hell no" i can't live with bugs if i know that it would be easy to fix after opening it.

(Now we could wonder why buying a closed platform at all, well just because it's a well done gadget)

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