Estimating the Jailbreak population for iPhone and iPod touch

iPhone Atlas posts that AppSnapp, the 1.1.1 jailbreak site, has been used more than 1 million times. Now, of course, that does not mean that there are more than 1 million jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches out there, it just means that the procedure has been run that many times. I know that my two units account for at least a dozen uses of the site but I'm guessing that I'm at the high end of per-unit applications of the exploit.

For some additional numbers on jailbreak penetration, turn to Shaun Erickson's blog. Shaun runs STE Packaging, one of the two main iPhone software repositories. His top 25 downloads list is headed by OpenSSH, with almost a half million downloads, and Apollo IM with 350,000. Multiple downloads (an important consideration after firmware upgrades and system restores) may be offset by the fact that not every user downloads every package. It looks like it's fairly safe to say that several hundred thousand units have been jailbroken and are running third party applications. The AppSnapp site suggests even higher numbers. Since the exploit is limited to the 1.1.1 firmware, it eliminates having to account for re-downloads due to firmware upgrades.

Thanks Drudge