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So I was watching TWiT a few weeks ago, soon after the Jailbreakme.com site launched and thought I’d give it a go. 

A few weeks later, I’m restoring to 4.0.2. Goodbye Jailbreak.

For me, the cons, far outway they pros. To be short about this, here are my reasons for leaving the Cydia world.

1. Hassle to install and remove some apps. A fair number of apps require a force quit of Springboard on install, removal or normal use (Winterboard). Just feels like its unstable.
2. Winterboard, an app for skinning the homescreens, for some reason, caused the Gowalla app to crash when opened. No reason why.
3. Launching a few apps was noticeably slower, i.e. Camera.
4. Despite not crashing, some apps certainly seemed to hang during use.
5. Finding apps and viewing info about them in Cydia is still an unpleasant experience. I never felt sure about what I installed.

And the pros were:

1. I can install apps I may not have paid for (purely for testing purposes)
2. I can change the default icons for the Apple apps.

While the themes were nice, especially Matte Nano, I’ll just live with the stock firmware. 

So I recently put the Cyanogen ROM on my girlfriends old G1 to see how well it would run 2.1. And to use it properly, I picked up a T-Mobile PAYG sim card last week. I put £5 credit on it just so I could use the data connection a bit

Today I had phone call from someone claiming to be Three (called from 02920822643). He asked me whether I was on PAYG or contact. I said PAYG and he asked how much I spent a month. I said about £5 becuase it was only for occasional use, and that I had another contract phone which I was very happy with. He asked if I would switch and I said “no way”. He asked me why I would turn down a better offer for less money, to which I replied that I had an iPhone and couldn’t get that from Three.

At this point he started to tell me that smartphones were more popular than the iPhone. Being a tech guy I disputed this. Firstly I said that the iPhone was a smartphone, he then corrected his statement and said that smartphones like Android and the Google phone (yes they are one and the same) were more popular. I corrected him again and said that that was true in the US in the last quarter but globally it wasn’t true.

This was a bit of a heated discussion, firstly because I wasn’t interested in switching anything to Three, let alone giving up my iPhone for an Android while I’m in the middle of a 2-year contract. Secondly, he was ringing on a phone I’m hardly going to use. Thirdly, he was being a jerk, and arguing with someone who clearly knows a bit about tech news and mobile phone marketshare, and that really isn’t the way you sell a product or service.

He should’ve realised that I was quite obviously happy with my iPhone and not wanting to switch, rather than thinking that something like apparent popularity would be enough to sway me to switch.

I’m quite capable of making my own mind up about a mobile phone.

Douche.