Why Apple Devices Are Easier To Hack And Customize Than Android Devices

Those guys who are owning any of the Apple devices are really very lucky because hacking iOS devices is much easier than to hack an Android device.. But really if you have BlackBerry Bold and tried to install a leaked version of RIM’s OS 6 on your device and rooting my Android handsets to install the latest ROM is really so difficult.. While if you tried to jailbreak your Apple device is so easy I think by using Redsn0w, Sn0wbreeze and of course finally Absinthe Jailbreak, a
lso you can customize your iPhone by installing a thousands of jailbreak tweaks that change your iPhone from the normal to the incredible.. More details below:




Lifehacker’s Whitson Gordon — a long-time Android user — attests to this rather well in a recent article entitled “Forget Android: the iPhone Is a Better Phone for Hacking, Tweaking, and Customization.” And here’s what Whiston said when he is asked about rooting Android and installing leaked versions of OS:

“But, when you really want to get down to tweaking the nitty-gritty, the fact of the matter is that rooting is what opens up real possibilities. Unfortunately, rooting is about as big of a headache as breaking into a bank vault with a safety pin. You have over 100 different Android phones out there, each with its own rooting method, caveats, and risks that you have to research. It’s so annoying that we had to turn our rooting guide into a guide for only the top 10 phones, in addition to tacking on an exhaustive glossary of all the crap you have to know before starting the process. Our jailbreak guide, on the other hand, is 3 steps long.”

Really why don’t you think it by yourself.. In order to jailbreak your iPhone is so easy just plug in your iPhone with the computer and open Redsn0w, and the program will do the rest.. While if we have gone on rooting an Android device (aka Jailbreaking Android devices) We can see a big difference:

“The headache doesn’t stop with rooting, either. Because Android has so many devices and so many different versions of itself floating around (the sad downside of open source), a lot of the tweaks you get are sadly specific to a certain device or ROM. Tweaks that work with Sense ROMs won’t work with AOSP ROMs, and Gingerbread tweaks probably won’t work with Ice Cream Sandwich-based ROMs.”

So Gordon continues says that after he made a comparison between Android and iPhone in Cydia store, he said the following:

“Now, I’m the first guy to complain about how slow and annoying Cydia can be, but after coming from Android, I’ve realized that Cydia is the greatest thing to happen to us phone tweakers. Want to install an app, tweak or customization to your iPhone? Chances are pretty darn good you’ll find it among the thousands of apps and tweaks available in Cydia. Want to do the same on Android? Once you’ve narrowed down the tweaks that your device can actually use, you’ll have to root through forums like XDA Developers or RootzWiki for what you’re looking for, and then sideload it onto your phone via Dropbox or USB.”

What does this all mean? It means that despite how “open” Android may be, I can buy an iOS device, and within 5 minutes be able to do more with it than I ever could with an Android one. And you have to admit, that’s kind of ironic. So really those who are owning an Android device are suffering from rooting their devices.. And questions ?! I don’t think

By Hamza Hasnain

What Hamza thinks:

"I think Google is realizing this and attempting to converge all the different tweaks from manufacturers into one, identical OS for each "base" hardware configuration. Just look at the difference between Gingerbread-manufacturer mods and ICS-manufacturer mods. Eventually rooting will be much easier to "port" between the different types. Not to mention, manufacturers like Samsung are well-known for their easy-rooting; they're the equivalent of Apple here, with a major update a year that's easy to keep track of.
But for now, you're completely correct. Plug it in, click one button, and wait ten minutes. You've just opened your phone up to a plethora of tweaks and mods."