iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak gets easier, still not released to public
By Will Park on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 11:48 am PST In Announcements, Apple, Applications, Developer, Mac OS, iPhone
Well, that didn’t take too long. It feels like we were just talking about the iPhone development community having cooked up a rather complicated jailbreak solution for the iPhone v1.1.3. Unfortunately, the jailbreak method wasn’t ready for prime-time because us mere mortals apparently didn’t have the mental facilities to deal with the jailbreaking minutiae.
Anyway, word on the street has it that the iPhone Dev community has drummed up an end-user-friendly version of the iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak. It seems that the current, easier iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak method is about as complex as the iPhone v1.1.2 jailbreak - which is a good thing. Unfortunately, us iPhone users will have to wait until Apple releases the official iPhone SDK before we get the iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak in our hands.
The reasoning? The iPhone Dev community doesn’t want Apple to patch the jailbreak exploit with the inevitable firmware update that should follow the release of the iPhone SDK. And, we completely agree - it’d be great to have a fully jailbroken iPhone that can support both official iPhone applications and the grass-roots third-party iPhone applications that we’ve become somewhat attached to - a public v1.1.3 jailbreak method could very well mean that Apple will kill the jailbreak solution and lock-down the iPhone for official application-use.
In either case, we can’t wait for official third-party apps to play alongside our Installer.app-sourced third-party applications.
[Via: iPhone Atlas]
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
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January 22nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Can’t wait until the jailbreak is officially released to the public.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 am
Give me a break!
There hasn’t been a firmware yet that has resisted jailbreaking. If iphone Dev won’t release it, someone else will - reducing their credibility, and ultimately, with the release of the SDK, their relevance. I predict this is the last great pronouncement from the iphone dev team before they scurry back under the couch from which they came.
There’s only one thing that bugs me more than a company deciding it’s users can’t modify the product they purchased - self described hackers thinking they know what’s best too…. birds of a feather I suppose
January 24th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
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January 24th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
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