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iPhone Am I better off buying the 6 now to ensure it's compatible with the future Jailbreak?
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Definitely. And this also involves being safe from Apple's HW changes to make JB'ing much more complicated like those of the boot changes in the 3GS, some 3-4 months after the initial release.
Of course, initial batches can also be risky - see the rampant battery problems of the first months' iPhone 5's.
Depending on which model and whether or not you get in on contract, there are anywhere from 199 to 849 reasons
What's the poster above referring to when he says there could be anywhere from 199 to 500 reasons it could be a bad idea?
Ahhhh thank you, that flew right over my head. Is the cost of the phone really going to change in a month or two or whenever the Jailbreak is released though? I'm guessing based on past releases it will be released by November.
Cost will stay the same until the next iPhone in 2015 will be released. Some stores might do some promos like they did last year for BF, but MRSP won't change.
That perhaps if you are buying it mainly with jailbreak in mind and one doesn't come for a long time if perhaps ever at all then maybe you might be wasting that money essentially.
There will probably be a Jailbreak within a month or two. iOS 7 was a bigger change than 8 and they had one by January.
Not sure how it was a bigger challenge, and perhaps the other way around. It's likely to be done, but no one knows for sure, nor how soon (or late) it would be.
iOS 7 was a completely new operating system, iOS 8 is iOS 7 with a few added features.
iOS 7 was certainly new as far as UI (among other things), but I would argue that there's much more new as far as what's underneath when it comes to iOS 8. What something looks like is just one aspect of it all, and can usually be a smaller one than many other larger and/or more important (even if less visible to the end user) changes.
Most probably not. If you do have some issues then you are covered under the 1yr warranty anyway.
I will say that while iOS 8 may be jailbroken in the coming months, we won't know how long it will take to jailbreak the iPhone 6 with the new A8 chip. New chips and such have caused issues in the past and sometimes newer devices are left out for a little while longer for jailbreak.
I would wait, unless you're looking for a reason to pick one up, then it wouldn't hurt...
On the day a iphone 6 jailbreak is announced and official, swing on over to a retailer and pick one up. It takes a month or so for newly shipped phones to come equipped with 8.1 or some other update.
On the day a iphone 6 jailbreak is announced and official, swing on over to a retailer and pick one up. It takes a month or so for newly shipped phones to come equipped with 8.1 or some other update.