jackr9··on libimobiledevice – A cross-platform library to communicate with iOS devicesActually this lets you do more than what iTunes lets you. iOS 8.3 has already prevented tools like iFunBox (which also uses this IIRC) to access the app sandbox directory.
jackr9··on libimobiledevice – A cross-platform library to communicate with iOS devicesUnfortunately iOS 9's new 'rootless' feature is going to break a lot of stuff in this.