iPhonegizmo recently conducted a survey to find out where iPhone users were getting their music, movie and game downloads from. The results surprised us for two reasons.
First, we discovered that nearly half (48%) of the respondents had jailbroken their iphone!
Secondly, we discovered that whilst nearly 52% of iphone owners got their downloads only from iTunes, a massive 88% of those admitted that they thought:
they could ONLY get downloads for my iPhone from iTunes.
Of course, that means that more than half (52%) of respondents were getting at least some of their downloads from other sources .
Overall, in fact, a surprising 1 in 3 iphone owners who answered the quiz said they
don’t use iTunes at all – for their downloads
These results have inspired us to investigate further. We decided, for example, to look at the risks and gains from jail breaking your iPhone and will present our findings in the next post. We will also check out what alternative sources for downloads are being used, and report back. (In the meantime there is some info here)