I often see people leave disparaging comments toward Apple devices, saying things like, "Oh, you have to jailbreak if you want that. Hahaha." Then turn around and talk about rooting an Android phone to do something (or remove some built in app).
So, is there really a technical difference between jailbreaking and rooting? Are we being overly pedantic?
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Is there technically a difference between jailbreaking iOS devices and rooting Android devices?
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For all intents and purposes, they are the same thing.
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If I were to play the fanboy card, it would be to say that you have to jailbreak stuff on iOS in order to get capabilities that are already available to you on Android without root. It's not an even comparison.
But the real response is that I don't think anyone really says this anymore, do they? What can't you get on standard iOS that Android has natively? Technically Froyo enabled WiFi tethering, but the Nexus One was the only phone that was able to use it due to carrier interference.
Other than that, the main feature difference in Android that I can think of remains the free turn-by-turn navigation, and that's not something that jailbreaking is going to get you.
But the real response is that I don't think anyone really says this anymore, do they? What can't you get on standard iOS that Android has natively? Technically Froyo enabled WiFi tethering, but the Nexus One was the only phone that was able to use it due to carrier interference.
Other than that, the main feature difference in Android that I can think of remains the free turn-by-turn navigation, and that's not something that jailbreaking is going to get you.
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The latter - Essentially, no. Both procedures remove the protection that the vendor and/or the carrier has applied (often for the users benefit as much for their own control) to the OS to prevent full access.
The former - Most people have an innate ability to compartmentalise their delusions and prejudices in a manner that even they're not aware. Especially those who're wedded to a brand of some type.
The former - Most people have an innate ability to compartmentalise their delusions and prejudices in a manner that even they're not aware. Especially those who're wedded to a brand of some type.
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definitely the same thing.
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The way I understand it (which is very limited) is that rooting an Android device gives you access to functions that are natively built into Android OS, but get locked down by OEMs. iOS is by nature a closed operating system, so jailbreaking it gives users access to features they are not intended to have access to.
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