Yes, it tells you how to obtain the warranty and whatnot. Nothing about how to use your device.
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Why does Apple Void the Iphone Warranty for Jailbreaking
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Yes, it tells you how to obtain the warranty and whatnot. Nothing about how to use your device.
Just so you know. When you erase the iPhone using the settings.app, it zeros out all the data so there is NO WAY you can recover any data that was on it. They added this feature because people were restoring their iPhone and selling them on eBay.. technically, the iPhone wasn't completely erased because there is still data stored on hidden blocks that can be tapped into using police software. Just like when you delete photos off your camera, they're not totally gone until they get overwritten with new photos.
Actually, Apple does lose money. Although most people don't jailbreak their phone to do it, jailbreaking does allow one to install pirated apps from the App Store onto one's iPhone / iPod Touch. If Apple didn't have a "punishment" for jailbreaking phones, more people would do it, thus more people would pirate apps = Apple losing money.
It really sucks that jailbreaking and installing cracked apps even have to relate to each other in this way... I don't even know anyone that JBs to install cracked apps. Everyone that I know that is JB just wants the most out of their device, not to steal from developers. Unfortunately though, you are right.
u realize that jailbreaking has been around a year before the app store was even announced?
jailbreaking is not synonymous with pirating apps. get that out of your head.
I love FUD. Technically that's true. Apple would have to forensically capture your flash disk, then sit there and analyze it with scalpel/foremost, HexEdit or EnCase. Unless there's significant evidence that you jailbroke your phone, I don't see this as a useful allotment of Apple resources.
If you wanted to feel safer however, do a secure wipe, then restore. It'll make it REAL tough to know what was done on the phone previously.
I'm getting a Masters degree in Forensic Computing. You can't forensically analyze an iPhone or use tools on it without Jailbreaking. Not to mention that customization is a big draw to jailbreakers, myself included.