Why Do (so few) South Africans Jailbreak?

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I'd be extremely interested to know from this informed Forum the reasons why so few South Africans jailbreak their iOS devices - especially iPhone's?

For me, my primary reason is the Cydia app: BiteSMS and the ability to schedule sms's.

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With iOS 7.1 on an Ipad, there is less necessity to Jailbreak since the selection of apps is that much better
 
As an iPad user - found all the apps I need. No need to jailbreak.
As a former Android user - never felt the urge to run custom ROMS and whatnot on my phone
As a current WP8 user - don't see a need to.

In fact, to me it makes perfect sense that only the minority would jailbreak stuff - the super geek power users. The average guy just doesn't give a **** and is happy with the way the damn device works.
 
Hamster said:
In fact, to me it makes perfect sense that only the minority would jailbreak stuff - the super geek power users. The average guy just doesn't give a **** and is happy with the way the damn device works.
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You've answered my question! Thank you.
 
Hamster said:
In fact, to me it makes perfect sense that only the minority would jailbreak stuff - the super geek power users. The average guy just doesn't give a **** and is happy with the way the damn device works.
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^^ This
 
Keeper said:
Yeah but you can't install moviebox like the OP and there is nothing else out there like it :erm:
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Wow... you can say that again! IMHO it's way better than NetFlix, having subscribed to the latter. I use AdBlocker to block its banner adverts.
 
As someone who has owned a galaxy s2 for 2 years and hasn't bother rooting or changing roms (I know how to though) I am perfectly happy with the stock firmware and there's nothing I can really gain from doing so. I can imagine the only reason you would want to jailbreak an iphone is to pirate apps and change a theme.
 
The only reason I jailbroke one of our iPads was because I wanted to see how XBMC performs on it. Other than than, I see no point to jailbreaking it.
If the day that I need to schedule an SMS finally arrives, then I'll do it from the Vodacom website.
 
If something went wrong who would fix it? You'd probably have to get a MYbb forumite to help.
 
I felt that it slowed down the device... But anyway, I jailbroke my iPod Touch 4g (that made it slow) and also jailbroke the iPhone 5 (that was great) but when iOS 7 was released, I moved to that and never found the need to jailbreak after that and sold it anyway before the iOS 7 jailbreak was released
 
People who would jailbreak prefer Android with more customisation especially with ROM choices even over an iOS device. :whistle:
 
Jailbroke every device I had until the launch of IOS7. Always for Winter and Summerboard. No need now IMO.
 
Since iOS 7 and switching to Plex I have no need to.

And updates are and always will be a pain in the ass.
 
I didn't know how to - sounded like effort
 
Is easy and small tweaks such as jelly lock make it worth it.
 
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