Do I Look Like A Criminal?

If you asked Apple about me, they’d tell you I’m a vicious criminal of the highest degree.

My crime?

I ran a jailbreak on my iPhone.

Now my phone can actually do a lot of the things I wished it could do when I first got it.  I can run apps in the background.  I can customize the look and feel of the interface.  I can browse and manipulate the file system.  I can assign custom sounds to just about everything.  And come on, doesn’t this:

look sooooooooo much better than this:

The best part is, it was all really easy.  The software used to jailbreak the phone is common knowledge on the internet.  Its release was reported on major tech sites like Engadget and Lifehacker, and the whole process, from downloading the program, running it, and restarting the phone only took about 5 minutes.  Of course, I’ve spent a lot of time since then looking for new (unauthorized) apps, themes, icons and tweaks, but the process itself is fast and simple.  Just don’t forget to change your root password.

It’s really a shame that Apple is so obsessed with conformity that they won’t allow their users to branch out a bit and really personalize their devices.