iPhone SDK key leaked?
By Nilay Patel 
posted Jan 28th 2008 4:39PM
posted Jan 28th 2008 4:39PM
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The gates are open...
Steve Jobs: The Gates are CLOSED!
*changes SDK key*
wow 2 M$ references in the first 2 posts.
That's awesome! Alright developers get on board. :)
developers. developers. developers...wait...wtf?!?
Anyways, good thing you posted it online, otherwise they might not have changed it.
usually companies give out false information to different branches to see where the leak is coming from. possible, this could end someone's job.
I would love to get on board, but unless the SDK is more developer-friendly than Apple's previous SDKs, it ain't happening. Maybe I'm just spoiled living in the Microsoft world of excellent IDEs (aka Visual Studio), but the thought of trying to develop an app without them is a hard-sell for me. Managed code, WYSIWYG control creation, intellisense, LINQ integration...all these things take the chore away from building apps so you can focus on UI/UX and functionality. Sure, I could do the same thing writing straight C++, but WTF would you want to?
In short, I certainly hope that the SDK will make app development reasonably pain-free, but Apple's track-record doesn't bode all that well for it.
Wow, Erica lookin rough.
I bet they close with a "BOOM!".
-D
Do you mean Bill's gates?
@giuliop
Last I checked, WinMobile was open to development.
Wonder if this will become like that DIGG fiasco a while back?
09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Oh yeah.
Oh, shit, you found out my password! Time to change to FCKGW!
I agree with agulluz. Apple will probably have an update that that breaks this key. SJ said in the keynote a few weeks ago that the software for the iPhone will be from $0 to $5.99. If it can be released for free, why won't developers be compliant? Now that the key is published, malicious code can be written. I would rather go through iTunes so I don't jack up my iPhone.
He never said that. That was from a "fake" keynote.
hetmeel.com lol :D
Surely Apple will just change the key now before the official release of the SDK.
I cant wait for apps for it. Bring em on!!!!
Boom!
*prediction*
in the new firmware the key will be...
48 15 16 23 42
:-)
Dude, you're a Lost fan!
So am I.
I can hardly wait till Thursday!
It would really, really suck if someone was expected to enter the god damn key every two hours...
I never understood that part. I mean why the hell didn't they just set a script up on a timer :)
damn it! thats the same combination as my luggage...
@w00t,
The reason according to Darlton (Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for non-Lost addicts) is that the computer was needed to be manned at all times.
Example: Suppose electric shortage occurred, someone needed to make sure someone was there to fix it.
Case in point - if some glitch occurs, someone needs to be there!
you know if they were using a mac (on Lost), they could just use automator to put in the numbers every hour, and be done with the situarion. More over, they could also do software updates and actually be able to contact anyone they need to.
well... they are on an apple computer...
an apple ][+ to be precise...
(i have one! :-D)
props on the photoshop!
That's not a photoshop. That's from a site that autogens the picture form your text.
http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php
Seems to me letting the key be known before the SDK is released is bad form. Can't apple just say "fine, no SDK for you"
Then everyone would just go back to jailbreak.
Win win situation.
*prediction*
in the new firmware the key will be...
1...2...3...4...5, sir
That's the same combination as my luggage!
Spaceballs anyone?
What kind of a system is this? Wouldn't each application get its own authentic key, like a serial number on a piece of software?
Whatever, I just want that SDK now. I hope this doesn't lengthen the amount of time it takes to release it. I want to get some native applications running on my device soon.
I agree with toaster. This has HD-DVD written all over it.
This is a message for all develeopers ;) this is cool, I just hope that someone makes a app for djs, the touch has sooo many possibilities!!! take them!!
Why is this key necessary? Surely they'll just provide some developer tools, I write and release my app and people download and install it. Why is it necessary to lock this down with a key? I'm not trolling, I'm just interested to know if anyone can help.
Because then how is Apple supposed to have a monopoly on the iPhone app market?
This is the key:
18 84 58 A6 D1 50 34 DF E3 86 F2 3B 61 D4 37 74
enjoy:)
Yes, we know what the key is. We can (looks at photo) read.
It is unbelievably sad that there is even a key. What the fuck is wrong with Steve Jobs. Apple would be on every consumer desktop in the planet and Microsoft would be a forgotten memory there if he would just get out of the way of Apple's success.
Yes, your exactly right.
That's how it was before Jobs returned to the company and ruined it all!
I absolutely believe that he brought the company back from the dust, but the last couple of years, every brilliant product that Apple produces is at least somewhat hobbled by Jobs' disastrous mistakes.
Actually... I do kind of see where you're coming from there
I have a Mac Pro, it's a wonderful machine but I'm really disappointed with the lack of video cards. A workstation like this shouldn't have to compromise like that, and who thought a 7300GT would be a suitable card for the suggested spec?!
It's the same with other products, there's always a compromise. The iPhone has no 3G, The MacBook Air has ONE USB port, and where's the desktop class upgradeable tower?
That being said, I do think they have some great products and the user experience is often unmatched. I just wish they could iron out these problems, and it wouldn't hurt for them to open things up a little...
Joey, its all a clever well made plan:
Screw the product up.
Fix the screw up
People love you for what should have been done in the first place
Repeat with Gen 2.
It's not any more unbelievable than any other closed platform, like Wii, PS3, etc. It was never, to my knowledge, marketed as anything other than that, and anyone buying it expecting it to be Open Moko should betta known betta.
Jobs runs Apple as a business. I don't know about you, but I'm not a communist and I don't work for free either, so I have no entitlement issues or expectations beyond having Apple use iTunes to create a secure, monetized delivery method for their apps.
If the price is too high, or the apps too buggy, I'll vote with my wallet and not buy any. And if I do buy some, because I paid for them, I'll hold them to a certain standard. Good for Apple. Good for the developers who shouldn't have to work for free either, and good for me.
Better, at least, than my (stock and un-3rd partied) Treo freezing and crashing at least once a day when the phone rang.
rener, I am not arguing that Apple doesn't have the right to run their business the way they see fit, I am simply critiquing the decisions they have made. I see this type of argument brought up time and again on numerous issues, and it just doesn't apply.
When I think of the genius designers and engineers at Apple, and the products they could create if they weren't beholden to certain design fetishes of Jobs (his absolute craving of making the absolute thinnest products possible even if they general footprint is sacrificed, and the overall product is sacrificed because of it)...; it makes me insane to think about it!!!
Maybe I am just crazy, but I think they would still sell millions and millions of notebooks if they released OS X for generic PC's. If anything, their sales would increase, because 1. They would be pressured more to compete specifically with featuresets and prices of PC's, and 2. the way the hardware design of their computers and the software design of their operating system are designed to mesh would become all the more glaring, as the generic PC's fitted with OSX wouldn't have things like Magsafe, backlit keyboards, DVI ports across the line, etc. and 3. So many people that love OS X and aren't as impressed with the hardware or aren't in a position to buy a new computer, would get the opportunity to try OS X, and many would later make a Mac their next computer.
One last thing... If only they had released a 12 inch Macbook Pro in the tradition of the 12 inch Powerbook. When you look back at what they were able to fit in that computer back then, and the hardware that is available today, you see they could produce such a kickass product that didn't have the glaring compromises of the MBA.
Oh, yeah-- Just what I need; For Apple's customer service lines to be bogged down with generic PC owners running OS X and calling in to see how to get their random boxes made from cheap, poorly-tested, probably incompatible parts to work properly.
And let's not forget the number of utterly clueless PC users who would flood the Apple discussion forums with all sorts of "HOW DO I GET TEAM FROTRESS TO WORK ON TEH MAC?!?!" posts.
Due to the cost of aiding so many more customers, Apple would have to do the Microsoft thing and outsource their currently excellent Customer Care to India, where some haughty Hindu calling herself "Heather" would read from a script and ask us to turn the computer off, wait 30 seconds, and then turn it back on, or her male counterpart "Jim" would read a list of simple fixes like "Is the computer plugged in to a power supply?" for all the retards out there.
Macs would be targeted more and more by idiots making junkware. We'd have kernel panics because Creative Labs would produce a sound card that doesn't play nice with Nvidia's newest video card, or some fly-by-night hardware company's mainboard components. The user base would turn from a group of decent folks who all try to help each other with their various Mac questions into a throng of drooling, knuckle-dragging Wal*Mart customers who wouldn't contribute anything, but "wanna know how to get free movies" (or worse!) "on this MAC computer."
No thank you. I quite like Steve Jobs' plans, and I don't really care if it makes me look arrogant to say that I don't WANT the majority of Windows PC loyalists to jump on the OS X wagon. They'd just f*ck it up for the rest of us and make Mac ownership a little less pleasant, in the long run. I'm glad they don't sell "millions and millions" more than they already do.
Besides, the average Mac user has a habit of buying a lot of Apple hardware, and we're doing a pretty good job of keeping Apple in the money.
A few more users and switchers would be nice (just the smart ones, please) but if your idea is that you want all the convenience and benefit of running OS X, but the low, low cost of having a computer made from sh!tty Taiwanese junk parts you found online for the lowest prices possible, then you're probably better off switching to LINUX and leaving the Mac world alone, because no matter how nice OS X is (and it IS nice), it can't make up for the frequently incompatible, cheap parts you find in the average Dell, HP/Compaq, Alienware, or homemade box.
You are so unbelievably ignorant of Windows and its users, there is no point in even commenting on your "argument".
But I'm bored and procrastinating, so I will anyway. I never said that Apple would make OS X compatible with every possible Windows part out there. They would need to make it compatible with a majority of the parts made by the major manufacturers in the last couple years, that's all. There definitely would be a lot of general expenses involved in the transition, but not much more than it cost to take OS X to Intel.
Great, we're finally getting what should have been here since day one.
wanna get high? lol sorry had to =)
Sure hope developers run with this and make some killer apps!
okay then if they are releasing stuff how about a jailbreak for 1.1.3 with the 4.6Bl
There's an old saying: "No amount of money or manpower can equal the other guy being stupid". Apple, with all their money and manpower, is very lucky that people were too stupid/arrogant to keep their mouths shut about the 1.1.3 jailbreak and SDK key until after the Feb. (29th) SDK release. Now, instead of having an open 1.1.3 with full SDK hacked and in the wild, Apple simply has to drop a new firmware update with a tighter SDK authorization system before the SDK goes live.
Also, as Apple has a long history of Canary Traps (multiple, slightly different bits of information being passed around with the sole intent of using the identifiers to catch any leakers), in light of the 1.1.3 firmware being given away early, Apple may now know exactly who gave out the info, and since the SDK key can't be tested against anything (as it could if people had just waited until after the SDK release to verify it), it could be completely bogus, and Apple still has their leaker, sealing forever one friendly avenue for information.
Brilliant!
Truism: the easiest way to catch any hacker is through their ego.
LOL - http://www.188458a6d15034dfe386f23b61d43774.com/
or the GIMP or Krita...
Congratulations, engadget! Your forum system is broken!
...which could be dealt with easily enough if we had, say...
post edits.
Meanwhile, at his house in Cupertino, Steve Jobs appears to be looking for something...
"Honey, have you seen my keys? I don't remember where I put them when I came home last night, and this morning I can't seem to find them."
"Aaaaahhhhh!!!! Somebody plastered them all over the internet!!! Damn you iPhone DevTeam, wait 'till I get my hands on you, and... BOOM, I'll sue you out of existence!!!
"Steve, I know that in the past we haven't exactly seen eye-to-eye, but this is kinda of an emergency... Do you have a couple of extra chairs I could borrow?"
Damn comment system, it ate a couple of lines. Repost:
Meanwhile, at his house in Cupertino, Steve Jobs appears to be looking for something...
"Honey, have you seen my keys? I don't remember where I put them when I came home last night, and this morning I can't seem to find them."
(browses the web with his Mac tablet)
"Aaaaahhhhh!!!! Somebody plastered them all over the internet!!! Damn you iPhone DevTeam, wait 'till I get my hands on you, and... BOOM, I'll sue you out of existence!!!
(takes his 3G iPhone from his pocket, and calls Steve Ballmer)
"Steve, I know that in the past we haven't seen exactly eye-to-eye, but this is kinda of an emergency... Do you have a couple of extra chairs I