[asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie

[Jeff Brower]

Allann-

> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Allann Jones <allanjos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But jailbreaking increases the freedom to develop a application and
>
> Oh, I agree with you, but it's probably even better to make a decision
> to either buy into the constraints of Apple or find a better, free-er
> phone, which is what I hope a lot of people will be doing in the next
> few years. In a vain attempt to return to VoIP and Asterisk, let's
> hope that more future mobile OS will all allow multi-apps so that you
> can leave a SIP client running in the background.
>
> The big problem with jailbreaking is updates. If you have a lot of
> time and energy  to manage that problem when it comes up, jailbreaking
> is "fun" in a geeky sort of way.

I think that's very wise advice.  To offer a commercial perspective, our customers willing to pay for sophisticated
smart phone apps (currently gov/mil agencies and some mid-size telecoms) have very specific needs and care about
reliable operation, development duration, long-term support -- all the things you would expect in a normal project. 
Those aren't going to happen on a jailbreak system.  For example they're willing to use Droid and not iPhone if the
job can get done.

-Jeff