Sorry, kids, but BK's right. After buying my iPod touch a while back, I went looking to see what third-party apps existed so I could decide whether to jailbreak. (Keep in mind that I'm an enthusiastic homebrew user on my PSP, DS, and Nokia Internet Tablet.)
Anyway, the apps are along the lines of the sliding puzzle that shipped with the first Mac 128K. Or Snake, a game that was on the Atari 2600 in 1978. Or this... *thing* with a crude drawing of a tree, and you shake your iPhone or iPod touch back and forth, and the *leaves fall off.*
And those are the *highlights.*
Lest I be marked as a troll, perhaps I found a site with an incomplete listing of third-party apps. There absolutely was nothing in their list worth jailbreaking and installing. There were a very few clever hacks, like iListen, but too few to talk me into jailbreak. It was all proof of concept stuff as far as I could see.
But if there *are* any worth installing, I'd love to know, because I do support homebrew communities. And for that matter, I could see jailbreaking an early iPod touch to get the apps that Apple later added.
So what third-party apps do you people use on a regular basis? Talk me into this.
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Bob S. @ Feb 29th 2008 12:27PM
Sorry, kids, but BK's right. After buying my iPod touch a while back, I went looking to see what third-party apps existed so I could decide whether to jailbreak. (Keep in mind that I'm an enthusiastic homebrew user on my PSP, DS, and Nokia Internet Tablet.)
Anyway, the apps are along the lines of the sliding puzzle that shipped with the first Mac 128K. Or Snake, a game that was on the Atari 2600 in 1978. Or this... *thing* with a crude drawing of a tree, and you shake your iPhone or iPod touch back and forth, and the *leaves fall off.*
And those are the *highlights.*
Lest I be marked as a troll, perhaps I found a site with an incomplete listing of third-party apps. There absolutely was nothing in their list worth jailbreaking and installing. There were a very few clever hacks, like iListen, but too few to talk me into jailbreak. It was all proof of concept stuff as far as I could see.
But if there *are* any worth installing, I'd love to know, because I do support homebrew communities. And for that matter, I could see jailbreaking an early iPod touch to get the apps that Apple later added.
So what third-party apps do you people use on a regular basis? Talk me into this.