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Year after year, history repeats itself: there is a new version of iOS hackers are finding vulnerabilities in it and release a jailbreak. With each new version of iOS it becomes functional and users to jailbreak tweaks for increasingly prefer "clean" operating system, because it almost does not yield a modified, but much more stable. On iOS 5 and iOS 6 jailbreak was almost the norm, but with the release of iOS 7, many owners of iOS-devices abandoned it.
Recently been rumors about the possibility of jailbreaking iOS 8, but how quickly the public release will take place and whether it will need in general, it remains a big question. In this article, we will discuss not the technical ability to jailbreak iOS 8, and the future jailbreak community as a whole.
Behave in a cat-and-mouse way
As you know, Jailbreak - this is a way to break down the walls that Apple protects their software to have full control over it. Jailbreaking allows users to install and various extensions and applications that significantly extend the functionality of iOS-devices and Apple are not for anything in the world not to miss App Store.
Kupertinovtsy position in this regard, more than clear. If you are doing on their devices jailbreak - you lose the warranty and can not count on support if something goes wrong. At the same time, if this support you really need, you can restore your iPhone or iPad to the official firmware before going to the CC and no one will ever know that you have done all Jailbreak.
Apple and jailbreak community play a cat and mouse ever since she got iPhone OS 1.0 and the script is always the same:
- Apple releases a new version of iOS;
- a hacker or group of hackers are finding vulnerabilities in it;
- use them, and release tools for jailbreaking;
After that, Apple's, of course, covers vulnerabilities found, releasing new versions of iOS, but hackers find them there and prodolzhdaetsya is now 7 consecutive years.
The motives of the company are clear and understandable, it is trying to make their products safer and more stable, so caring about their users. If iOS has been completely open system, to maintain its security at the appropriate level would be much more difficult. So blame Apple's excessive secrecy, perhaps, not worth it, especially since it is done out of good intentions. Such a solution makes sense for both the manufacturer and user. For the latter, perhaps even to a greater extent. It's nothing personal, it's just business.
Inspiration
It so happened historically that Apple is very often takes inspiration of applications and tweaks Cydia. Plenty of features included in the iOS today, were once established conventional developers alone and made available to all users dzheylbreka long before Apple introduced its iOS officially. For example, the same function copy / paste, widgets, control room, and many others.
This is due to the fact that the jailbreak community very quickly develops new software and, as a rule, it can occur without any consequences. In other words, they have a right to make mistakes, can not be said about Apple, which can not afford to release the function, which will be brought to perfection. Apple needs to do everything right the first time, so it takes much more time. This applies to absolutely any function or technology that will introduce Apple's, regardless of whether their counterparts there at the moment or not.
But be that as it may, the Jailbreak community provides a kind of Apple monitoring platform (sandbox, if wish), observing that the company can draw conclusions about the need for a particular function and innovation, as well as their implementation. Whether you like it or not, making the jailbreak, you are to some extent become a guinea pig, which did not pay for the experiments. Again, nothing personal.
Open for system developers
Question the need to jailbreak iOS 8 is now more relevant than ever. At WWDC conference for which you will surely have followed, Apple opened up many new opportunities for developers, which they can use in their applications.
Widgets, extensions, third-party keyboard - it is certainly a major step with the Apple side, but he necessary if the company wants to maintain the attractiveness of the platform for developers and its relevance to future. I think this is just the beginning, but it's pretty good, considering the fact that the developers were also Sensor API Touch ID and broader interoperability between applications while maintaining the same level of security.
However, even considering all the iOS 8 innovation, its potential is still very limited and are unattractive for a large segment jailbreak community, which will not be ready for them to part with complete freedom (this segment is not so large compared to the total number of users of iOS and steadily decreases). Jailbreak can offer them much more than the keyboard, widgets, and access to the Touch ID in Strawn applications. Perhaps you want to put widgets not only in the notification center, but also on the lock screen or home screen; completely change the type of iOS or anything else? Default do this, alas, can not.
Further development of the jailbreak community
I think that in spite of the provision of more opportunities for developers and expand the functionality of iOS, it will not have a significant impact on the development of the jailbreak community. Of course, some users refuse to jailbreak, not seeing it as a requirement. This happens every time with the release of a new, more functional iOS, but most likely it will have no impact on the overall situation, although in the case of iOS 8 things can change.
At the jailbreak developers a free hand and they will always be one step ahead of Apple and its official counterparts. So it was before, but whether it will continue after the iOS 8 release?
conclusions
By and large, if the situation with the jailbreak and will change with the release of iOS 8, it is insignificant. Yes, some of the users will go "on the light side of the force", but it happened with the release of each the new version of iOS, as each of them brought some of the new functions for which people did Jailbreak. In the autumn, with the release of iOS 8 of these functions will be much more, here then we'll see whether any need to jailbreak?
As for me, I can say that I have never been a supporter of a particular "party of power" and to constantly balance between the stability of the system and an abundance of advanced features. However, with the release of iOS 7, I finally determined by the stability and the "bright side". iOS 7 is attractive enough in terms of functionality and quite balanced, not to a desire in some of its additional tuning for themselves, so I think that in the jailbreak now virtually there is no need and iOS 8 output must only consolidate this position Affairs.
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