What are the (music making) benefits from jailbreaking?

pedro

Nothing ilegal! I purchased all the apps I use and need, and I'm surely not trusting any pirated stuff.

But things like having access to the file system, and not having to have copies of the same sample in each and every app you want to play with it? Is there a way? (ofc I own audioshare, but it still has to play by the rules)

I have an air 2 on 9.3.3 and an iphone se on 10.0.2. They both are jailbreakable...

db909

I looked into it a while back and it seemed like a huge pain in the ass to me. The main reason being if something goes wrong and things aren't functioning properly what are you gonna do? End up troubleshooting dumb stuff that wouldn't happen otherwise. theres a subreddit with an in depth faq I believe if you need a resource

theconnactic

When it was possible to do it with one click back in iOS 6 and earlier, it was fun - or so it's told: I didn't have an iDevice then. Now the jailbreak tools take ages to be released, require multiple actions, and are frequently instable. In my humble opinion, iFile doesn't justify all the PITA.

theconnactic

Of course, if they had developed iFile to be a really nice file browser - a Finder, or an iFunBox at least, with friendly folder names and so - I'd have a different opinion. iFile could have been so much more!

Matthew

I used to jailbreak when iOS was more limited, but I don't see any point these days. Plus, it always made my devices unstable not to mention the security concerns.

mrufino1

Its the equivalent of having that corvette your neighbor is restoring in 75 pieces in the yard up on cement blocks. "When I get this baby workin', it's gonna be the fastest thing on earth." Meanwhile, I drove all over the state today in my CR-V.

When my iPhone was jailbroken I did not write better songs. But I could have i tell you!!

pedro

I think you guys are being a bit unfair. The JB process for 9.3.3 is pretty straightforward, it's not rocket science, and if anything goes wrong, you can easily revert to non-JB status. You don't need a PC for any of these. But bare in mind I haven't JB'ed an iDevice in ages, so I'm kinda out of the loop and may be mistaken.

And to be honest, I'm not really compelled to do it, since I fail to see what great improvements in workflow it would bring. I'm just holding on updating my iPad, just to keep my options available.

And just a correction: I said in my OP that 10.0.2 was jailbreakable, but silly me, it isn't (yet). I believe with all the bugs that crawled in there, and were patched in 10.1, it is inevitable it will be, and there was already some guy who got root-access using one of these exploits.

Anyway, thanks for your opinions, guys.

supadom

@mrufino1 said:
Its the equivalent of having that corvette your neighbor is restoring in 75 pieces in the yard up on cement blocks. "When I get this baby workin', it's gonna be the fastest thing on earth." Meanwhile, I drove all over the state today in my CR-V.

When my iPhone was jailbroken I did not write better songs. But I could have i tell you!!

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It rings a lot of bells with my windows days. Wait, you just need to install this and that driver, spent my life with head buried in settings. Yuck