Jailbreaking your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch is not illegal. The Apple Squad isn't going to come knocking on your door, prise your jailbroken device out of your hands and send you to Android purgatory.
In fact, last year the US government officially declared jailbreaking legal - even though it wasn't illegal in the first place.
When you jailbreak your device, it opens it up to installing hundreds if not thousands of apps, tweaks and themes that Apple, with its ultra-tight control ethic, doesn't allow in the official App Store.
Jailbreaking gives you access to the "unofficial" app store called Cydia. And iClarified is reporting an interesting development in Cydia's evolution.
Among the hundreds of themes in the store is one produced by - hold your breath - Toyota for its Scion car. Now, you must admit it's good marketing to persuade iPhone owners to theme their phones with your brand.
Big companies have shied away from Cydia because of its unfounded associations with "hacking" and the like. But it seems that is now changing.
Jay Freeman, who runs Cydia, estimates there are up to 15-million jailbroken iDevices. That's a big market and it seems big business is just realising it.
Jailbreaking becomes mainstream - just watch.
A couple of notes here: if you take your jailbroken iDevice in for a warranty repair, it will be refused. But all you have to do is restore it first in iTunes. And if you haven't got a clue what jailbreaking is/does here's a guide.
(Via: iClarified)
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