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senthilmuthu
senthilmuthu

Reputation:

iphone development and jailbreak

I am new to iphone development. We can develop iphone applications through:

  1. legal
  2. jail breaking

If I jail break my iphone OS, after that can I install latest version of iphone OS and make it as legal again from apple site?

If I develop jail break applications, can I install it in iphone without apple authorization like provisioning, certificates etc.?

Why apple did not protect against these operations (jail breaking)?

How do the companies which provide jail breaking software know the apple iphone os structure?

Why did apple develop iphone OS without protection, security? For example if I use BREW, it is protected by qualcomm.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2965

Answers (2)

Kekoa
Kekoa

Reputation: 28240

If you develop apps for the jail breaking community you are severely limiting the amount of money that can be made with an app. It's dishonest because when you sign up as an Apple developer, you agree explicitly NOT to do such a thing.

No device can be fully protected from tampering. However, Apple is concerned about security, this is why they control the AppStore, so you don't give hackers access to your phone. When you jail break your phone, you are opening the door for all kinds of maliciousness.

If you want security and safety, stick with what Apple has given you. Don't add to the sillyness of jail breaking. It has also been rumored that in future OS updates, Apple will 'brick' phones that have been tampered with, rendering the phones useless as they won't be compatible with future updates.

I think legal and honorable software development is the only kind that should be advocated on stack overflow.

Upvotes: 2

Sophie Alpert
Sophie Alpert

Reputation: 143124

Yes.
Yes.
They did their best.
They hacked the ROMs and .ipsws.
Like I said above, they tried to protect it.
And iPhone OS is protected by Apple, but the people try harder to hack the iPhone because it is more popular.

Upvotes: 1

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