iPhone jailbreaking doubles (UPDATED)

Hans — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:09:39 +0000

iPhone Analytics company, Pinch Media is reporting in their newsletter that the percentage of jailbroken iPhones increased from 8.43% to 17.1% in the week of August 2. The percentage of sessions from jailbroken iPhones also increased from 6.65% to 8.2%. 17% of all iPhone users have performed a jailbreak, that’s an impressive number! Apple will not be happy about this, they don’t like jailbreaking.

In the week of July 26, the percentage of jailbreakers increased from only 8.0% to 8.43%, so something happened in the week of August 2 that made a lot of iPhone users decide to jailbreak. I believe the banning of Google Voice apps from the App Store was responsible for the huge increase. If people can’t get their apps through the App Store they will jailbreak to get them from Cydia. Apple has put a lot of restrictions on the App Store and the iPhone that users have to jailbreak in order to get features/applications they want.

Update: There was an error in the newsletter that Pinch Media sent out, Katherine Pan has e-mailed an updated newsletter with the correct statistics.

“Oops! The 17.1% jailbroken statistic was the percentage of new users, not unique users, that were jailbroken – which is still significant; out of the almost a million new devices we saw last week, 17.1% were jailbroken. Unique Users on Jailbroken phones increased slightly from 8.43% to 8.6%. Sessions on Jailbroken phones increased slightly also from 6.65% to 6.7%. It is also worth noting that a new OS version, 3.0.1, has appeared. There are now 56.4% users and 57.2% sessions on 3.0, and 18.0% users and 17.1% sessions on 3.0.1, for a total of 74.4% users and 74.3% sessions on OS 3.0 or higher.” – Katherine Pan, Pinch Media

A graph of the jailbreaking statistics can be seen below.

[via Pinch Media Newsletter]

iPhone jailbreaking increases from 8.00% to 8.43%

Hans — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:13:25 +0000

Apple recently posted a document on their support site and tried to scare away people from jailbreaking. According to an iPhone analytics company, Pinch Media, the percentage of unique users using jailbroken iPhones went up from 8.0% to 8.43% in the week of July 26,2009. The percentage of sessions from jailbroken iPhones also increased from 6.2% to 6.65%.

Last week Apple removed the GV Mobile App, rejected the official Google Voice App, and banned all other Google Voice Apps from the App Store. The developer of GV Mobile, Sean Kovacs was not happy about this so he decided to add his application for free on Cydia. I’m not sure if this caused the increase in jailbroken iPhones last week, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

You can take a look at the graphs Pinch Media published in their recent newsletter below. Did you jailbreak your iPhone because of Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice app? Leave your comments below.

[via Just Another iPhone Blog, and Pinch Media Newsletter]

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iPhone jailbreaking doubles (UPDATED)

iPhone jailbreaking increases from 8.00% to 8.43%