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It used to be fun (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 59 points 1 year ago* (18 children)

iOS jailbreaking used to be incredible too.

I guess it might still be for those who slipped into the “window” to do it, but I have no clue what Cydia looks like these days.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Cydia is practically dead, replaced by Sileo or Zebra, and most tweaks are paid now.

    I miss when people did stuff for a hobby or for fun. Literally everything wants your money these days it seems.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's not like everything (or rather every dev) necessarily wants your money. We're forced to monetize even our hobbies in an attempt to live a worthwhile life. It's a cancerous system infecting everything and everyone.

    To develop great FOSS software without the need of monetization is an enormous privilege.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Oh that sucks. It’s par for iOS though.

    Yeah, me too. So what if apps were simpler than they are now… that would be nice.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It truly was a great time when the scene was really bumping. Maybe one day we’ll pendulum swing back to something along that peak jailbreak scene.

    Maybe..

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You made me wonder if there could ever be an avenue for Apple to support this, especially with Google just getting worse and worse with android.

    Apple makes a ton of money on just hardware sales. Imagine if the next iPhone had an option that would delete iOS, possibly blow some kind of security fuse in the CPU that voids your warranty (because they still have to be dicks), and reboot into an unlocked bootloader. They could boost sales and be even shittier to Google by rolling their own distro of Linux/Android/BSD for the phones with solid drivers for everything.

    That veered off into fantasy land immediately, since that is not how Apple does things. And they do have services to sell too. But even if they only enabled open access on older models it could move a ton of units. Interesting to imagine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I feel like iPhones had a sweet spot between the 4 and the... I dunno. A few generations after that? Where jailbreaking was rampant and incredible, and the phones are basically like the 16 now.

    Then Android had a 'sweet spot' after that. Their quality and UI fluidity really caught up, to the point where my old Razer Phone 2 (SD845) still feels faster than an iPhone 16.

    After that... well, I dunno where to go :(. Feels like both platforms are locking down.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    would be nice

    Omay, but, and hear me out on this: what if we added microtransactions to your email app and keyboard app?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I held onto jailbreaking till the end. I have a iPhone on iOS 17.0 and TrollStore for permanent sideloaded apps. It’s pretty awesome! There hasn’t been anything like a jailbreak or TrollStore since then. I wish I had bought an iPhone 15 on iOS 17.0 at launch so I could hold onto this as long as possible. Having a lower end iPhone I’ll probably need an upgrade in the next year or so.

    You can get a similar experience to TrollStore by paying for an Apple developer account or a third-party signing service that abuses Apple developer accounts. It seems android users may have to do a similar thing in a few years.

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