iPhone 4 Jailbreak Update: Apple Doesn’t Allow It Even If Legal Now

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While we’re waiting for the Apple online store to come back up with fresh new products we will update you on the whole iPhone 4 (and not only) jailbreaking issue. Just yesterday we found out that the U.S. government decided to make jailbreaking, unlocking and rooting iPhone and Android devices, respectively, legal.

And just like we suspected, Apple wasn’t particularly thrilled by the matter, and I expect AT&T, or any other carrier that’s still exclusively tied to Apple, to be equally annoying with this new DMCA ruling. I was expecting a “Thoughts on Flash”-like reaction from Apple, not necessarily from Steve Jobs, but from Apple’s PR department, in which they’d explicitly tell us how they hate the new law and everyone that will decide to respect it.

So far, all we got is this:

“Apple’s goal has always been to insure that our customers have a great experience with their iPhone and we know that jailbreaking can severely degrade the experience. As we’ve said before, the vast majority of customers do not jailbreak their iPhones as this can violate the warranty and can cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably.”

That’s a pretty succinct, Apple-like, statement that says it all. Apple wants to fully control the iOS environment in order to offer a proper experience to the user. That’s understandable up to a certain point, but the user might want to use some of the apps that Apple decided to ban from the App Store for no apparent good reason. I won’t go into giving you various examples of perfectly great applications that were banned from the App Store, but what I will do is to encourage you to still respect the work of developers that work for the iOS environment.

Jailbreaking the phone is not supposed to be done in order to steal all the content one can get, at least not in my book. Those people developing those apps have to make a living and continue to create better apps in the future. So users, whether they have a jailed or jailbroken device, should still respect that principle.

Apple will definitely void your iOS device’s warranty once you jailbreaking, and, again, if that’s not something you feel comfortable doing, then you’d better not do it in the first place. Apple has not sued anyone for jailbreaking any of the iPhone models (the iPhone 4 is currently the only jailed Apple handset) or any other mobile device created by Cupertino, but I guess it will happen sooner or later.

Although, if you ask me, Apple should secretly appreciate jailbreaking and unlocking which gives their users a sense of freedom and ensures they’ll stay even longer a faithful customer. Openly however, that won’t happen.

As for the iPhone 4, the “official” jailbreak should follow any day now, as soon as the iPhone Dev Team crosses all the Ts and dots all the Is. We’ll definitely keep you in the loop on the Spirit iPhone 4 jailbreak solution, so stay tuned, jailbreak fans!