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AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pick-the-locks dept.

Wired has noted that "Soon, thanks to the tireless efforts of the iPhone Dev Team, you will be able to install apps on your AppleTV. An upcoming Jailbreak tool, called SHAtter, has already been used to unlock the new Apple TV's firmware." The units are supposedly now shipping. I have a lot of questions about the device (like how will it handle the photo screen saver if your local machines are offline) but hacking it might make the thing more usable (divx please, and how about letting my screen share my desktop to my TV?).

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  1. Re:Gluttons for abuse by tzhuge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's a straw-man.

    'People' do not buy something 'they must jailbreak'. The vast majority buy a product that they want because it does enough of what they want for it to be worth the price. The jailbreakers do what they do because they find some enjoyment in doing it. The people who use the product jailbroken are often just messing around. They use jailbreak because the can. Those that buy a product that does not meet their need, then use jailbreak to make the product meet their need are mythical, except perhaps when there are in fact no alternatives at all.

    Frankly what's really tragic is that so many people insist on whining about products they clearly don't want instead of just buying and enjoying what they do want. It's also tragic that so many keep rationalizing their 'superior' choice by denigrating others.

  2. Re:Gluttons for abuse by Microlith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    what's really tragic is that so many people insist on whining about products they clearly don't want

    I'm more concerned about people encouraging and supporting Apple's attitude of lock down and customer control.

  3. Re:Gluttons for abuse by Microlith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The iOS device - like the PS3 or Wii - is pefectly tuned for success in its core markets

    The iOS device is not tuned like the PS3 or Wii, Apple is directly targeting iOS devices for general purpose mobile computing and home computing.

    and there the jailbreak doesn't happen because no one gives a damn about the OtherOS - or whatever else it is that the geek is pining for.

    Indeed, but this does not justify heavy lock down.

    Unless, of course, that what the geek is pining for is a free copy of Fallout: New Vegas or the Blu-Ray screener of Iron Man 3.

    You insult everyone who appreciates not having lock down, and everyone who has argued against DRM with that bullshit pro-MPAA/pro-RIAA style argument.