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If you own an iPhone or iPod touch, which statement best describes the programs on your phone?
1/1: If you own an iPhone or iPod touch, which statement best describes the programs on your phone?
Other polls | 1,014 votes | 11 comments
Not about unlocking...
Note that this poll doesn't relate to unlocking the iPhone's SIM card, just modifying it such that you can run third party apps (i.e. via the AppTapp installer).
Calendar and SSH
These two things were enough to make me "hack" my iPod touch: OpenSSH/Term-vt100 for the ability to do SSH from my iPod, and the Calendar .plist modification for the ability to create calendar events on the iPod.
used to have mine hacked
But when 1.1.1 came out I quit trying to hack it. I'll wait for the SDK next year before I start adding third party apps again, unless some killer third party app comes out in the meantime.
etch-a-sketch
If you have children, I highly recommend the Sketches app. it was amazing to see my (2yo) son's face light up when he realized that he could draw just by touching the screen. The iPhone (or something similar) will almost certainly be his 'first computer' and may end up being the interface with which he feels the most comfortable. (It worked that way for me and the Mac 128 my dad bought when I was 14.)
Reasons
This poll also doesn't take into account the reasons you did the jailbreak for, assuming you did.
Reasons
The comments are for just that -- explaining why you might have done what you've done :).
Third party apps
The poll omits ringtones; they're not totally stock, but iToner is not run on the iPhone.
Mostly Apple's
The "third-party" apps that I loaded on my iPod are the "background" types (Community Sources, BSD Sybsystem, and OpenSSH). There is the calendar patch. The main added apps are some of Apple's iPhone apps (Mail, Notes, and Maos).
Not my iPhone…
Does it count if I took an iPhone in an Apple Store to JailBreakme.com? I did it and downloaded the installer app. But I couldn't get further than that because there was a password.
The iTouch is pretty useless unhacked
Really. As an iPod, it's less than optimal because it has no hardware buttons for volume and such. As a PDA or an internet tablet, it lacks email and a calendar you can actually use to add things to. But jailbreak it and install Mail.app and Notes and Maps, and fix the calendar, and install the Terminal and ssh, and the eBook reader -- and you have a great internet tablet and PDA and Unix server that fits in every pocket. And it can play Music and Movies, too!
Adding apps is a must
Until Apple supports adding my own apps to either of these devices, I'm just not interested. |
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