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iPhone, iPod Touch 1.1.1 Firmwares Jailbroken
vertigoCiel writes "Hackers Niacin and Dre have recently gained full read and write access to the filesystems of both the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The Jailbreak exploits a vulnerability in Safari's TIFF library to execute the necessary code when the specially crafted image is loaded. Access can then be permanently sustained by modifying the fstab file with iPhuc"
I have DOOM on my phone, and it runs WINDOWS! *GASP*
/facepalm
Jailbreak? What's jailbreak? I just downloaded one of several SDKs that I liked and started writing applications. I thought that's how smartphones worked? Did I forget to "break" out of some sort of "jail"? Am I going to get in trouble for not breaking out?
To quote the 12-year-olds:
Karma: Poor (Mostly affected by lame karma-joke sigs)
The iPhone doesn't work on my university's network due to its poor (non-existent?) implementation of 802.1x. The final conclusion was that there is nothing we can do about it; Apple made their phone where it will not work on secured networks. Depending on where you live/work, the lack of real wifi is a deal-breaker to me.
If I wanted something like the iPhone, I'd wait for the Neo1973.
It's amazing a mindless comment like that can be modded up to "Insightful" so people can read it. That's just flamebait.
That's just hyperbole. I think what you're thinking of is Sony. A company has to be consistently nasty to its consumers to achieve the level of evil that you so dismissively assert Apple is guilty of.
There are a lot of things to gripe about when it comes to Apple. No games, dearth of third party apps, it comes at a significant price premium (in South and Southeast Asia at least), it's locked-in. Most of these have pretty decent answers too.
But Apple's done a lot for their consumers. For example, engaging the evil money-sucking overlords that is the music industry with, what might be argued as, very fair use of DRM'ed music: burn it as many times as you like in different playlists, and on up to five computers.
I hate DRM too, and own no DRM'ed music, but let's face it. These guys say burning CDs your own is stealing, and Apple got them to let you burn your DRM'ed tracks an unlimited number of times, and be stored on up to five Macs. That's not half bad.
There's a reason everyone's clambering for the iPhone. An excellent user experience which you get nowhere else, and, to all of Apple's marketing credit, a media hype-machine that they didn't have to spend too much money and effort on.
They didn't have to work too hard for it was because Apple has the street-cred for turning out some damn good products. Immitation is the best form of flattery, and a look at any computer electronics store will show you the influence Apple has had on the entire industry. From cheap Chinese hardware manufacturers to Microsoft, they're all influenced by Apple's design and implementation ethos.
Now what they did get wrong is closing up the platform. They claim to have reasons for it. Frankly, I don't know what their reasons are, but I won't get any of these locked down platforms until I know they're open. That's a choice you can make as a consumer.
Apple is a company which, although certainly not perfect, hasn't really been all that evil until now, and in some cases, has done some good. So there really isn't any reason to get nasty about it.