'Jailbreak' Users Reaches 22 Million Devices

'Jailbreak' Users Reaches 22 Million Devices. Jailbreak is already established as a legal process by the U.S. government. However, Apple still does not approve this process is carried out in their own products.

Because all products are successfully jailbreak can enjoy applications from third parties that are not approved by Apple. It is, according to Apple, is a dangerous thing. Yes, the cyber criminals can easily insert malicious script into an application and usually without conscious consumers will download the application.

Still, consumers are not too worried about the security threat. There are still many owners of iOS-based devices who decided to make their devices' freed from jail ".

This is evident from the number of users Cydia, a third-party application can only be used on iOS devices already in-jailbreak.

According to Jay Freeman, Cydia makers, within 2 months this alone there are more than 20 million devices, iOS devices precisely 22,780,029 detected using this application. Devices that have happened this jailbreak does not only consist of the iPhone, but the iPod Touch and iPad.

Quoted from iPhonehacks, Wednesday (23/01/2013), there are 34.9 percent of the iPhone 4 using Cydia within 2 months, followed by the iPhone 4S in figure 20.4 percent and 11.9 percent with the iPhone 3GS.

Jailbreak process may provide some benefit. For example, the performance of the Apple device will be faster because the user can delete the default application that is considered less important. Users can also install various custom themes.

If users find the device that's already jail broken less convenient to use, the user can restore the original condition through the restore feature of iTunes. Keep in mind, the jailbreak will eliminate the official warranty from Apple.

'Jailbreak' Users Reaches 22 Million Devices