To Update or leave the Jailbreak
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Earlier today I had a brief conversation with a coworker about some of the announcements at yesterdays Apple Keynote. I explained that while I thought the announcements were cool, none of them really excited me. Not even the iPhone updates. As far as I was concerned, the updates didn’t warrant me giving up my Jailbroken iPhone. To which he replied, “so what makes the hacked apps so great”. In running him through the list, I realized that very few of them would actually be missed and for the first time I actually contemplated re-jailing my iPhone.
I’m still very conflicted about the whole thing. If the SDK had been released yesterday the decision would be a lot easier, but that’s sadly not the case. Updating my iPhone to firmware version 1.1.3 would mean the complete loss of all third-party apps on my phone until after February when the official SDK actually is released. On the other hand, there are really only four out of the forty-something third-party apps that I “need”. The rest are just there because they’re cool or good conversation pieces. Many I use just because they’re there and not because I actually need them for anything. In fact, most of these expendable apps are used more by the people I let play with my phone than by me.
So, I’ve devised a plan. I’ve returned my phone to the default theme and hidden all the third-party apps (with the exception of MobileFinder which I need to access the setting that would let me later unhide the apps), essentially emulating the phone in it’s virgin state. If I can make it one week without needing or feeling the urge for my third-party apps, I’m going to update and restore my phone to version 1.1.3 of the firmware.
posted by Christopher Schnese
