Is it me or is it just getting hot in here? I see the positives in both JBing and not JBing your iPhone. To say that one solution or the other is better because the apps available lack innovation or most of them are useless is a weak argument.

You don't think the App store has innovation? How about defining innovation? Is XPlane inovative? A flight sim for a PDA phone? It's available on the App store. How about any other software that uses the accelerometer? Is the software innovative or is it the device?

There are "useless" apps all over the place. Why are they useless? Because I don't find any use in them. I would find those apps in the App store and Cydia. What is truely the difference between JBing and not? Stability? Freedom? Functionality?

I was looking through the Diamond thread yesterday. It's the closest thing to the iPhone I've seen since I got this thing. Those guys have all kinds of problems that we don't. Battery life? Ha! Functioanlity? They are aleady having to hack some things that, quite frankly, they shouldn't have to. The 4 GB storage? Yeah, they still have the issues of the SD card I had on the 6700.

One of my coworkers bought the 6800 before I got this. She got a good deal and I was looking to do the same thing until I decided to give the iPhone a chance. The other day I tried to call her before going to her office. She didn't answer. When I saw her, she looked at her phone and it started a constant vibrate with a call coming in and she couldn't answer it. In fact, it was stuck. She had to soft reset it like I had to do so many times before. Thing is, she doesn't have the apps I had and it still happend.

When a call comes in on my iPhone, I feel a lot more comfortable that I will be able to answer it. If I JB it, will I feel the same way? Is it riskier? I think so. The "added" functionality I'd get by doing so just isn't worth it to me. I don't care about having a different background for my icons to cover up. I don't care about having an application that can continuously run on the background that has a possibiltiy of causing problems in my ability to answer the phone. Will that functionality eventually come? I think it will. And when it does, I think Apple will set it up so it won't be able to interfere with the rest of the functionality of this device. Why do I feel that way? Because they already do it with their applications. I can wait.

Does the App store need some work? Absolutely! But at least Apple is trying. I can't say that about HTC, samsung, microsoft, or anyone else in the WM world.

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