Originally Posted by
Mr. Bean
There are lots of other things... I can customize themes, wallpapers for springboard and lockscreen, rotating wallpapers, 5 icons on your dock, etc. as far as aesthetics go. Also, I can hide icons for apps I don't use much, like iTunes, compass, calculator, and the native stocks app. Obviously iOS4 will have folders so one could technically dump all of these into one or two 'junk' folders
. I also can use my phone as a temporary hard drive when I jail-break it, in that I can store files on its hard drive. Essentially, like a large flash drive.
This is just scratching the surface, though. There are lots of others, like an app that lets you control/manage torrents remotely, an app that allows you to basically firewall your phone (selectively block/open ports), an app that lets you run wifi-dependent programs on 3G, an app that lets you blacklist phone numbers, an app that downloads youtube videos, etc.
Right. People have to remember than an IPhone is simply a computer. You can do whatever you want with it. You could even wipe it clean and boot Linux up on it if you wanted. Some people have done that and loaded Android on their iPhones.
What is the difference if I buy a laptop or an iPhone? I can load whatever I want on a laptop, why not an iPhone? The claim is that since there is a GSM telephone hardware/software set in the iPhone that Apple cannot let us have full control. That is just nonsense. Apple can absolve themselves with a bunch of fine print legal disclaimers and let us screw up our iPhones any way we want. But Apple really wants to keep it locked so they can lock their customers in ITunes and money-making applications. I prefer more freedom in my computing.