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IPhone 2.0 Jailbroke
dch24 was one of many who noted that the iPhone 2.0 software has already been unlocked writes "If you were wondering how I was doing push email tests on iPhone OS 2.0 and Vodafone UK, this is the reason why. The code wizard commandos at the iPhone Dev Team have been working on this non-stop since the early days of beta testing. In fact, I had iPhone OS 2.0 running on my iPhone since last week. That was version 5A345, two below 5A347, but identical in functionality."
Still no word on an iPhone 3G crack.
Please run the story when there is a way to confirm it.
While the application development environment was locked, it made sense to play this cat-and-mouse game of jailbreaking phones to get at 3rd part apps. Now that Apple has created a rich ecosystem of free and fairly priced applications, I've lost all interest in the process. I happily scrubbed my phone and went with a clean build of 1.2.
Of course, there are a different set of motivations behind carrier unlocking.
Before and during the first iPhone release the coverage and interest was crazy. Now the iPhone interest seems to almost completely fallen off the radar. About the only coverage has been of the outrageous pricing plans in various countries and huge problems activating the phones.
Apple didn't meet the publicly stated sales targets with the first iPhone and it was assumed that everyone was waiting for the features in the 2nd gen. But that obviously isn't the case.
I can't see Apple even remotely coming close to their iPod level market domination with the iPhone but much more like their desktop computers - high margin but niche products.
Yes, but heretics get burned at the stake :(
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Anti-populism is cool and all, but you sort of undermined your own point when you felt it necessary to click into this submission just to make the world know that alewar (784204) doesn't care about the iPhone. Great dude.
This is almost as insightful as the guy who told us how Apple jumped the shark because they sold out of iPhone 3Gs before he could get one.
Well, I like my iPod Nano. It wasn't too expensive and works pretty well. I'm not unhappy with it. I don't think it's the best device possible, but unless they made a media player custom designed for me, I don't think I would ever find anything to be perfect. As far as cell phones go, I find the iPhone to be quite expensive, and the fact that it doesn't have buttons just annoys me to no end. There's no reason they couldn't put buttons on the back, or a long row of buttons along the side to facilitate dialing with some tactile feedback, and without having to look at the phone. With my current phone, I can dial my top 8 numbers with holding down a single key for a couple seconds. Can you do this on the iPhone? I think the iPhone is throwing out a lot of phone features, just to bring in other music/video/photo features. To me that's less reason to buy it. I' probably be happier with a phone that's just a phone, and an ipod touch.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Yes, but heretics get burned at the stake :(
and vegitarians get burned at the steak.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
is there anything that could possibly improve reception with a iphone that would allow for better reception. out of all the phones I have ever had, the reception on the iphone is horrendous. i get noservice through out the majority of my city and they have swapped my phone out twice. my crackberry use to be able to get reception inside our server room. i can't even get reception inside my building with my iphone.
i have never experience such poor customer service from at&t and apple. i expect it from at&t, but i have lost all confidence in apple. as a person of great purchasing power we were looking at moving our entire desktop infrastructure from dell/linux boxes to apple on our next upgrade cycle, but considering the service i have received from the "genius" bar and customer support that idea has been tabled. i wonder if apple realizes how much business they are losing with their deal with apple. plus the level of condensation of their employees at the store.
Gotta correct this... The feature set didnt just "get a lot more competitive with the app store." The potential is there for more competition and features.
The app store is full of a lot of terrible applications. Many of them thrown together crudely, like the NYC subway maps apps. The most popular one uses liscensed maps from the NY MTA (Metro Transit Authority). However the maps are just low resolution jpgs that you cant even zoom into and read clearly.
Its a rather poor application and its considered the best of the subway map applications. Thats not really saying much... or is it?
There are a few nice applications, and frankly they are the ones from AOL. The AOL Radio app is incredible, and i hope they keep adding more features and service to it. The AIM app is a welcomed addition considering Apple appears to have no fucking interest at all at bringing ichat over to the iphone. Thats very disappointing. The phone has a texting ui, but cant receive or send photo/video text messages (MMS)
Some other good apps are the facebook and myspace apps. They're actually nicer than their regular website services considering that especially the myspace app, doesnt download all of the shitty banners and crap people leave in comments. Who would have thought that Myspace is actually nice without all of the shitty "artwork" plastered all over it?
The games, what games? Apple's own texas hold'em app is average at best. It reminds me of a game from 1991. Its nice that there is multiplayer but the graphics are ridiculous. And coming from Apple... i would have expected a better ui for the game. Instead it looks like bargain bin software.
Super Monkey Ball is good... not great. It never really was a game worth owning.
Trisms, is a pretty cool game actually. Hard as hell but i think the developer did a nice job with it.
The nice things about the apps that are semi usable, is that when they use the net for data, they're very fast. They dont dl all of the nonsense that the safari browser does. Its nice to just get the dam text and a picture with a news story rather than entire website. I'm speaking about one of the new News apps on the iphone, which is lightning fast at displaying news articles... and has a photo for each story. And this is on an EDGE connection.
In general browsing with Safari on the iphone 1.0 while connected to EDGE is fucking painful. These web enabled apps though seem to do it rather nicely, streamlined and light on bandwidth, which of course means they're fast to load.
There is POTENTIAL with the new app store, and app capability... but i cant say that there is any killer app out there yet, other than AIM.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for software developers making a buck on their application if it's worth it (see related rant on media from a previous slashdot story).
The question here is... If -I- were to make a *free* French-English dictionary... what are my odds of getting approved as a developer, getting my app approved in the store, and so forth and so on. Keeping in mind that this conflicts with a for-pay product also listed, and of which Apple gets a greater share (as in > $0). I'm sure Apple would allow it, but then there's the case of TomTom (google them) still not being approved for the program, while a competitor (google them also, forgot their name - they're better known in the U.S. I think) is.
The code wizard commandos at the iPhone Dev Team
Code. Wizard. Commandos.
So when is Thinkgeek going to start selling camo-patterned electroluminescent Pong robes ?
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In the case of iPhone/iPod Touch, the only way to add functionality without voiding the warranty is through the manufacturer's approved method -- the same applies to your car.
In which country? In the United States, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act established that third-party accessories added to a car or other consumer product don't void the product's warranty unless the product's maker can prove that the accessory damaged the product.
For one thing, the developer program costs a pretty penny: $1,099 for a MacBook
As noted, Any Intel mac - including Mac Mini, look for an old one on eBay.
The sign-up form to become a registered iPhone developer appears to require that all developers be associated with a company or organization
Nope, I'm signed up as a company but I have a friend registered as an individual. In either case there are certain banking requirements (not sure if I can be specific about them so I'll leave that vague) if you want to distribute non-free applications, that essentially mean you will probably need an account with a larger bank. There are no banking requirements of course if you just want to do free applications.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"Am I the only one... ...who doesn't give a shit about the iphone or any other products from apple?"
You picked a funny thread to ask that. Sorta like going into a packed theater to see Episode III and shouting "Am I the only one that doesn't give a shit about Star Wars?"
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
The gauntness is probably a direct result of the cancer treatment. Here's a simple article explaining the procedure, and it's aftereffects.
Though I'm not worried about Jobs passing away any time soon, I would feel better if there was "another Steve Jobs" who could replace him. Tech companies almost always suffer when their original founders leave, and Apple nearly went bankrupt without Jobs once before
Steve isn't an engineer, or a programmer, and I can't even say I'd want to be his friend, but hell - the guy built Apple, NeXT, and Pixar from scratch. The tech industry needs a lot more Steve Jobs-type leaders, and a lot fewer company-hopping CEOs that only care about their stock portfolios.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
You're quite right.
Also, several of the applications I use multiple times on a daily basis -- MobileScrobbler, Terminal, sshd, AFPd, others -- would not be permitted under Apple's SDK terms.
I am eagerly anticipating the release of an .ipsw cracking tool in the near future.
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If this summary is true, why does the topic at irc://irc.osx86.hu/iphone-dev say "2.0 STILL LOCKED DONT UPDATE NO JB FOR 2.0"
Seems to me that those guys are more trustworthy than Giz's advance copy of unreleased software...
So, if an iphone requires "jailbreaking" or whatever kind of hipster term you want to use for it, does that make your iphone "jailbait"?
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the salad!
Violates the GPL? Since when?
At most, i think it just uses a few GPL libraries (webkit), the kernel, the interface, the core of the os etc are all BSD licensed or closed and owned by apple. There's nothing stopping you downloading webkit yourself.
While i agree they should allow open development, i don't think they're violating the gpl as it stands..
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Are you serious?
Let's cover this:
>>1. through the iTunes store (for cash or free).
Clearly it's not that easy. There are only a handful of apps there today. You have to abide by what apple will let you put on the phone/ipod. What if I have a nice SIP app that I want to put on my iphone? Or perhaps I'm clever and I've ported a JRE to the iphone? What are the chances Apple will let me distribute it?
>>2. enterprise distribution on an company's own servers.
This is Apple just being funny. There are no large corporations using Apples or iPhone or iPods in a way you suggest.
>>3. ad-hoc distribution on up to 100 iPhones.
What if I want the whole world to have an app that Apple would prefer does not exist?
I don't see why you think these three conditions helps anyone particularly.
Even if we assume that you are right about the premise that Jobs is a "scumbag" (and we'll just have to take your word for it - most of us don't know him as well as you seem to), your logic is flawed. Why would Apple be better off without him? Just because he's a "horrible person"? That makes no sense.
Well, you managed to insult me, but you still haven't answered my question. Why do you think Jobs is not needed anymore?
I find it amusing that you keep on telling me that I'm a "fanboi" while ranting on and on about how evil Jobs is. I think I'm not the fanboy here.
I really don't know if Jobs is evil, and even if he was, you continue to fail to explain why you think he's a bad man, or how his being evil hurt Apple. Isn't NBC back on iTunes? Even if they aren't, I fail to see how this hurts Apple, the iPod isn't losing any market share; it's just NBC which makes less money. And Apple seems to be doing just fine with AT&T.
PPS: Fuck you.
I see. Now that calling me a fanboy did not help you win the argument, you must resort to more heavy-handed attempts. I'm not sure why you think this helps your point; it just makes you look like the mindless fanboy.
Have a nice day!