iPhone Dev Team
I just want to take a sec to give a shout out to the iPhone Dev Team — our friends who have come up with the most reliable way to jailbreak your iPhone. They’re so fast, and so very good.
Case in point: Apple released the new iPhone 2.1 Firmware last Friday. By Saturday morning, the Dev Team had cracked it.
If you’ve got an iPhone and you’re looking to do some Jailbreaking, accept no substitutes. These guys are the real deal. I’m seriously looking forward to the point when these guys have a solution for actually unlock the phone for use on any network.
Or the day when Apple makes Jailbreaking (and even unlocking) irrelevant. Their current pattern of rejecting applications for the App Store without having any sort of clear acceptance standard (AFTER developers have paid $100 for the privilege of being able to submit to Apple in the first place and invested countless hours of unpaid development time) is pretty tyrannical, imho.
I would fully support anyone who wants to Jailbreak their phone — if it didn’t violate my service agreement, of course. There are a lot of useful applications out there that, for some reason or another, Apple does not want you to use (iPhone Modem, NemusSync, Snapture, VideoRecorder, BigBoss Prefs, Searcher, WinterBoard, Customize, not to mention Terminal and OpenSSH for the hardcore nerds. And that barely scratches the surface).
It’s my feeling that — I paid through the nose for this particular piece of hardware. Like any hardware that I own, I should be able to control how I use it. Apple doesn’t dictate to me what color my MBP’s desktop is. Why shouldn’t I be able to customize what my iPhone Springboard looks like? The camera on the iPhone can record video. Why shouldn’t I be able to use an application that takes advantage of that?
For more about how to Jailbreak your iPhone using the PwangeTool or QuickPwn, check out the Apple iPhone School. Or just jump right in with QuickPwn. It does all of the heavy lifting for you.
As I said, I cannot condone this sort of behavior. And I’ve never even considered Jailbreaking my iPhone. I mean, that would violate my service contract, now wouldn’t it? And I wouldn’t want to piss off AT&T…
Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPhone Dev Team, Jailbreak