For all you fanatics on the edge of your seat over the
iPhone v1.1.1 hacking situation, there's some good news on the horizon. According to Erica Sadun -- one of the soldiers heading up the fight to break Apple's stranglehold -- the iPhone / iPod touch dev team have indeed managed to Jailbreak the new update. Apparently, the general-use tool hasn't made a showing yet, but baby steps have been taken, and the goods are sure to follow. So what can you expect? Third party apps are working, but will probably need to be recompiled due to the new frameworks, Springboard won't recognize DisplayOrder.plist (included apps now seem to be hard-coded into the Springboard app), you can activate the phone with third-party workarounds, and the Mobile Terminal and BSD suite work, as well as ARM-compiled command-line utilities. Of very interesting note: Erica says that the new firmware references both
Nike and a radio, and that the devs are taking up a fund to buy a cake and deliver it to Apple, courtesy of "the Crazy Ones." She says the Jailbreak isn't "ready for prime time," and based on this info we tend to agree, but if you really want the full scoop, truck over to TUAW and check out the info for yourself.
posted October 8th 2007 12:58PM
All this work to get a over priced PDA phone to work the way it should have out of the box. The real reason Apple doesn't want free 3rd party apps are because it's free. One day the iphone will have easy to install apps, but you'll going to pay. PAY PAY PAY PAY PAY, it's apples favorite three letter word.
If Microsoft did this.............
... everyone would use Linux.
I DON'T own an iPhone, but I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Don't forget to write!
great news, lets wait for the release then :)
I will be buying an iPhone soon. How do i even get started on software unlocking my iPhone i have no clue... Btw, is a 3g iPhone about to come out later January next year?
don't. just don't.
Nice, nice.. I'm currently writing this while listening to music, tracking my train journey via GPS, having an IM program open with yahoo, msn and google talk, and the e-mail app open.. All at the same time, on my lovely Nokia E70.
Ah, did I mention the QWERTY keyboard?...
@ john
I agree with you totally; if Apple doesn't get their pride out of their asses soon all of us will eventually just forget about it.
I am now stuck with v1.1.1 because i (as Tim ficke mentioned) stupidly updated my "unlocked" iphone with this stupid version.
Can anyone help me unlock the phone....otherwise i am stuck with an overpaid ipod!!!
The hardest thing for companies to understand is that they can profit from having open platforms that let users decide what they want. For example, the popularity of Linksys older model routers are quite high because they had good hardware specs and could be flashed with better firmware enabling this little $60 router to have a feature set of a $500 router. This was of course before Linksys crippled the hardware specs and quickly fell out of favor with the newer models. Coders, of course, worked around this, but why stifle innovation, progress, and community/fan base when you could promote it and reap monetary gains? Not to mention your customers will be more happy.
We love gadgets. We want powerful, feature-full, gadgets that are always constantly improving. These companies, like Apple and many others, are only hindering themselves, sales, and products. Granted, there are some great innovations, but it could be better. Take the communities behind open source software as a good example. Open doesn't have to mean open source, but it would be in companies to have an open platform.
i meant that towards his earlier comment