Comment Re:Biased article - it fixes passcode bug (Score 1) 112
I get the feeling that both options are correct.
Apple gets to fix a 'security bug', and make it so a jailbreak no longer works. This makes them look good(tough on security), and keeps the walls up. As your casual user who knows just enough to *want* other software(or, say enabling tethering on an iDevice with it disabled?), but not enough time/knowledge to find the latest jailbreak, will just keep it stock.
Those 18m downloads are the people that:
1) Own an iDevice
2) Updated this month
3) Needed a new jailbreak
4) Took the time to find it
That a lot of iDevice users.. I wonder if this had not been patched, how much higher this number could have been in another month.
Apple gets to fix a 'security bug', and make it so a jailbreak no longer works. This makes them look good(tough on security), and keeps the walls up. As your casual user who knows just enough to *want* other software(or, say enabling tethering on an iDevice with it disabled?), but not enough time/knowledge to find the latest jailbreak, will just keep it stock.
Those 18m downloads are the people that:
1) Own an iDevice
2) Updated this month
3) Needed a new jailbreak
4) Took the time to find it
That a lot of iDevice users.. I wonder if this had not been patched, how much higher this number could have been in another month.