Without jailbreaking I find iOS practically unusable, and while it's a major strike against the platform in general that a jailbreak is required rather then it being an option (even if for-pay) available officially the jailbreak is still a fantastic bandaid while it lasts. It will of course vary from person to person, but it's hard to really appreciate how useful even minor features like customizable information on the lock screen or enhanced action menus (with copy/paste history, in-place dictionary lookup etc) is until you get used to it and then have to do without. Some of the functionality, like being able to change your default browser, is hard to see why Apple doesn't build-in (it's there on OS X), while other bits are clearly never likely to be allowed, but all of it breaths a lot of extra life into an OS that has otherwise been pretty stagnant compared to Android.

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