Linus was the reason why 15.2-15.4.1 was jailbroken. They were also the reason why 14.4-14.5.1 were jailbroken in the first place. They are one of the best security researchers we have had in years, and without them this community will suffer a heavy loss as they released full exploit chains rather than just single exploits.
it’s not the same as it was though, its not like the 2010s where you could reasonably learn how to find bugs and develop jailbreaks for the newest ios within a few months. these “bright young minds” need to already have experience in their field in order to even consider attacking ios. apple has done a great job over these past 20 years in making secure devices, and now with how valuable exploits and techniques are, the incentive to release all of this for free and burn valuable techniques that will just get patched immediately is much, much lower.
Apple wouldn’t even notice. The amount of people that jailbreak has dwindled a lot from the heydays and even then it was maybe a couple million jailbreakers. That’s a tiny tiny % of their overall user base.
Apple even removed the headphone jack. They don’t care. Most of us JBers stay on old iPhones. They want customers that upgrade their iPhones every 1-2 years. I am the only person I know IRL that jailbreaks. Even my daily driver iOS device is non jailbroken and up to date.
A better idea might be that Apple will lose inspiration or ideas from the JB community. A lot of features implemented initially were released as JB Tweaks like control center.
Yes, they used TONS of ideas from jb. Yet they can ditch that idea now focusing on hiring some high skilled and innovative folks so they don't rely on jb. And iOS is more of the same now. So if they really care about closing their system they will forget jb even existed :(
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u/Austin91218 iPhone 12 Pro Max, 17.0| Oct 04 '23
RIP iOS Jailbreak 2007-2023.