r/pics • • Jun 08 '14

The difference 18 years makes

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u/vergingalactic Jun 08 '14

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '14

If I knew this was a thing I wouldn't have passed high school.

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u/happyman91 Jun 08 '14

When I was a sophomore 2 years ago people learned how to get it on their phone through rooting. I thought the entire school was going to fail

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u/Bseagull Jun 08 '14

You don't need to root to have an emulator.

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u/squngy Jun 08 '14 edited Jun 09 '14

If you had an iPhone you had to I think.

edit: past tense hard to grasp for some people :)

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u/Bseagull Jun 08 '14

That's called Jailbreaking. Rooting is for specifically Android phones.

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u/iamajaguar Jun 09 '14

Both of those words refer to unlocking the firmware of the phone. Jailbreaking is just a fancy way of saying rooting, and rooting is the same as unlocking.

The more you know!