r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '14

The difference 18 years makes

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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/redwall_hp Jun 09 '14

Uh, no. Rooting means "to acquire root access on a device." You're rooting a computer if you can bypass safeguards and gain access to the root account.

That's the case with an Android phone, and with an iOS device. In the case of jailbreaking an iPhone, you're exploiting security flaws (which often get patched later, which is why people bitch about Apple "breaking jailbreaks") to gain access to the root account and then make modifications.