I'm also going to dispute this For the first generation iPhone, one could understand the attraction of jailbreaking an iPhone. There was no approved SDK, nor 225+ thousand applications to get things done. But even then, it was a chancy bet. Now, it?s counterproductive foolishness. For the reasons schumachiavelli posted above and add my own 2 cents regarding the 3G
Apple claimed that things like video recording would negatively impact the performance of the iPhone 3G hence that was not an enabled feature of the iOS3x update... however there is an app called cycorder which recorded video on the 2G and 3G iPhones with no performance issues.
The main allure of jailbreaking IMHO is to open up the iPhone platform to apps that are not Apple approved such as Google Voice... as well as allow a level of customization that Apple has yet to allow on the iPhone.
Sure enabling multitasking on the 3G running iOS4 can be counterproductive due to the increased lag but for the ability to run apps from another source other than Apple's App Store and web-based apps is hardly "foolishness"
Besides jailbreaking is hardly permanent - one can always do a full restore via iTunes and run a clean, stock, as Apple intended iOS.
So to answer your question I'm hanging with the jailbreakers as I have for the last 2 years.
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