[jandrese]

Yeah, Jailbreaks became much less necessary over time and also harder to do. I had gcc on the original iPhone and a full build chain. It was glorious, if a bit slow and annoyingly hacky because you had to self sign everything gcc spit out before it would run.

There's only a couple of things I still miss from the jailbreak days. One was a hack for iTunes that downloaded and displayed the lyrics for whatever song you were playing. The other was a SOCKS proxy that let me tether my phone without incurring the ridiculous tethering surcharge.