But as we can clearly see, there might be some sense in what Apple are doing, especially when it comes to protecting their users from malicious attackers. There are obviously lots of people targeting iOS out there and writing software to compromise its users, and jailbreak tools are a common channel for these attacks.
That’s because jailbreaking inherently compromises the device’s security and removes some of the restrictions imposed by Apple, restrictions which might limit the user’s freedom but they also improve the overall safety of the system.
We don’t know what the situation will be like with iOS 9, and there are already rumors that Apple are looking into even tighter security for that version of the operating system. It remains to be seen whether that’s true or not, but it could have some interesting implications for the jailbreak community.
Some users have been calling out to Apple, asking them to make the OS more open like Android, as that’s an example of an operating system that combines openness and security quite successfully. But Apple obviously have their own idea about how the OS should be developed and what’s best for the security of their users, so there’s probably little next to no chance to convinced them of anything too different from that.