Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nathan_f77 5087 days ago
This is one the many reasons why I would never buy another iPhone if it couldn't be jailbroken. It seems weird that 'hacker news' readers aren't more excited about 'hacking' the incredible computer in their pockets.

We don't need to beg developers to support Chrome if we can just change the default browser ourselves - http://i.imgur.com/f50Kxl.png

Other reasons to jailbreak:

* Grooveshark - Seems to have a bigger music collection than Spotify, best $9 I spend each month.

* VLC media player

* SSH - how is that not useful?

* SBSettings

* 5 columns for Springboard icons

* Compiling and installing any open source iPhone apps

* Being able to write tweaks like this: http://madebynathan.com/2010/12/26/ios-tweak-replace-operato...