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Apple Outs Anti-Jailbreak Update

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the longer-than-i'd-expect dept.

Stoobalou writes "Apple has issued an emergency update for devices running the iOS 4 mobile operating system. iOS 4.0.2 plugs the security hole exploited by the iPhone Dev Team to allow pain-free jailbreaking of the iPhone 4 and its manifold siblings as well as... actually, that's about it."

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  1. Re:Why does the submitter see this as a bad thing? by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bricked? I thought you could just re-synch your phone and restore it.

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  2. The best part by Halo1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple has not released the fix for the iPod Touch 1G and the iPhone 2G, so the iPhone Dev Team themselves are working on a fix that will work on all devices. So you'll be able to basically jailbreak and then plug the hole that was used to do it.

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  3. Re:Already an issue.. by am+2k · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problematic part is that iPhone 2G users won't get an update but are still susceptible to this bug, so they're SOL. Additionally, iOS 4 sucks on the iPhone 3G (nearly no new features, but much slower), so many are reluctant to update.

  4. Re:Already an issue.. by z1ppy · · Score: 5, Informative

    iOS 4 sucks on the iPhone 3G (nearly no new features, but much slower), so many are reluctant to update.

    iOS4 doesn't suck on the 3G if you do a clean wipe of the OS before moving to 4. This has been a known issue for some time now. Wipe your 3G, then move to iOS4. I know plenty of folks running iOS4 on their 3G who absolutely love it. They have no issues with performance or it suck-ing. If you upgraded and already experience performance issues, backup your phone, restore to factory settings, upgrade to iOS4, then restore from backup. Problem solved.

  5. Re:Outing the update by Laurence0 · · Score: 4, Informative
    I disagree with you both, although this could be because I have a UK perspective on the issue. Over here, you can either buy "locked" phones, which typically come with a pay-as-you-go sim. Regarding these, I basically agree with you, the network has subsidised them heavily, so they're not really "your" phone.

    On the other hand, you can get phones on contract. This involves signing up for a specified number of months, and possibly paying something up front. In this case, you're buying the phone, however you're essentially buying it on credit and paying it off over 12-24 months. In this case (at least over here) the phones generally come unlocked, so you can move to a different network if you wish, but you'll still have to pay your contract's monthly fee, even if you don't use the network.

    In the latter case, I feel it's perfectly fair to consider the phone to belong to the customer. They've paid for it, and the service.

    The other difference between the US and the UK is this ridiculous notion of crippled phones - over here, they might sometimes be locked to a network to cover the subsidy, but I've never had one which has had features deliberately disabled by the network which is what preventing you rooting the device basically amounts to.