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Originally Posted by inquisitor

But besides the regular waiving for firmware updates until another jailbreak method emerges, for how long will iPhones be jailbreakable?: Apple iOS auto-lock iOS patent application could monitor iPhone jailbreak/unlocking - SlashGear

I think the appropriate question may be how impregnable the iPhone 5 will be. I think that the hackers have come up with techniques that will require hardware changes to keep them out, but Apple knows that that the iPhone 4s will be pretty much dead in a couple of years.

The only thing that Apple has going against them right now is that since jailbreaking is legal in the US, there can be a fair amount of resources put into the problem. I'm not a gamer, but has Microsoft and Sony managed to boot the modded systems off their network most of the time? That may be the best comparison.