So what is jailbreaking?

Jailbreaking is a simple process in which an apple ipod touch, iphone, or even ipad can be hacked to increase its capabilities allowing countless extra features and rendering it free from apple restrictions. Jailbreaking has become and continues to become increasingly popular as people can customize their product to their liking, multitask, and acquire free third party apps from alternate app stores such as cydia, rock, or installer. The alternate app repositories that jailbreaking offers are preferable in that they tend to often be free or otherwise fairly priced and have a lack of restrictions and limitations.