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The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts
zacharye writes "The Sunday evening Wall Street Journal article claiming that Apple had cut its iPhone 5 display orders drastically for the March quarter made quite a splash. The way WSJ wrote its piece seemed to support the original Nikkei claim about Apple cutting its iPhone 5 display orders in half from the originally planned order of 65 million units. This would be a massive adjustment. But Apple uses the same new display type for both iPhone 5 and the latest iPod touch. Neither WSJ nor Nikkei addressed this, however — both seemed to be referring to just iPhone 5 displays. The math just doesn't add up."
You do, but really most of the Apple ecosystem does not want jailbreaks, and firmly supports Apple's active patching of JB-ed devices.
As a developer, jailbreaking means piracy. Installious may be gone, but there are plenty of other services that do the same thing. So, jailbroken devices take food out of our mouths. I have to thank Apple that the 4S and 5 have kept the leeches at bay for a very long time, and with the Dev Team's back broken, JBs will end up a moot point because if they do happen, the next Apple model will be out, with the next iOS version patching it.
As a user, iOS's security depends on the jail system. JB-ed devices have no security in place whatsoever (unlike rooted Android phones which at least still have separation via UIDs.)
No non-jailbroken device has ever have had malware in the wild, and this is where the proof is in the pudding. I can be assured that data stored on an iOS device will be protected, by both storage encryption, and by extreme protection even on the CPU itself. No other mass-market device can give this assurance outside of milspec stuff that only works in SIPRnet.