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Jailbreak For A5 iOS Devices Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-a-matter-of-time dept.

tlhIngan writes "It certainly took long enough, but the untethered jailbreak for Apple's A5 based iOS devices (iPad 2, iPhone 4s) has been released (official site, struggling due to traffic). It's currently only available for OS X, though ports of it to Windows are forthcoming."

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  1. re: not trolling, but serious answer by King_TJ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The only reason Windows Phone 7 hasn't caused any ruckus over concepts like rooting/jailbreaking/unlocking is because it has such a small market-share to begin with. The few people using those phones are typically not even the "power users" who'd care about such things, and the overall lack of developer support for their phone means there's little incentive to CARE anyway.

    Really, before smartphones even came out, this was a problem everyone had to put up with. I remember having a Moto Razr with downloadable apps using the proprietary "BREW" language, all locked down with DRM. Your phone got lost and had to be replaced? You lost your apps and had to beg them to let you re-download them without paying again (which they'd often not do).