Apple is infamous for making hardware that only they can easily support or provide accessories and repairs for. This irritates long-standing Apple customers who’ve bought into the latest round of iJunk, the iPad Mini and iPhone 5, because the charge port has changed to yet another type, and matches neither Androids or previous Apple phones and iPods (nor Blackberries which use the Android micro-USB standard).
Besides designing their hardware with Apple-specific, unique ports, they also write software designed to keep competing software off of them. To remove this software, or break it, is known as “jailbreaking” an iPhone. The latest 6.1 version, can be jailbroken. Here’s how it’s done, from a technical standpoint if you’re into that kind of thing like I am. This is a snippet of the final step the programmers at “evasi0n” had to make work on the locked-down iOS devices:
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