“Columbus Day was a busy one for the two dozen or so renegade programmers who have taken it upon themselves to re-do what Apple undid with its latest software update for the iPhone. Firmware update 1.1.1, released 10 days earlier, had wiped out virtually every unauthorized program written for the device,” Phillip Elmer-Dewitt reports for Fortune.
“At noon yesterday, Erica Sadun, a writer and programmer who has emerged as the unofficial spokesperson for the so-called iPhone Dev team, announced on The Unofficial Apple Weblog that her ‘guys’ had managed to ‘jailbreak 1.1.1’ — opening a crack in the updated iPhone’s firmware that might allow some of the third-party applications to slip back in,” Elmer-Dewitt reports.
“Meanwhile, in separate news flash, Sadun reported that the iPod Touch — the top-of- the-line multi-touch iPod that had so far resisted hacking — had also been hacked… (Note that none of these developments affect iPhones unlocked to work with carriers other than AT&T. They are still “bricked” by update 1.1.1),” Elmer-Dewitt reports.
Full article here.
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I totally agree. What a waste of time. I can’t believe that that a hacked iPhone/iPod is such a “holy grail” to spend such resources on keeping it hacked. It’s all ego.
Pirates of Silicon Valley
The NeXT Generation
I have to poop!
The title of this MDN article is inaccurate. Access has been made to the root level, but this is still a ways from having third-party apps running again. As of now, 1.1.1 is still not completely cracked.
You know y’all spend months sqawking away at how the iphone is a “real” Mac. Now someone wants to use it as such and y’all ridicule them. The only thing “real” here is too much damn Kool Aid.
Well is it a “real” Mac or not? If it isn’t then SJ wasted everyone’s time by pushing back te release of Leopard for this wanna be Mac, and monopolizing MacWorld for this non-Mac product.
Just my $0.02
These people really need a day job. Why don’t they try and find Osama Bin Laden?
Ray,
You sound like you could use a laxative. I can relate.
Ray, I take that back. I like being constipated.
Nice take. These people could spend their days doing something productive and making millions, or helping solve world hunger, but no, gotta crack the iPhone!!!
Weird nerds for sure.
In time Apple will have 3rd party apps, that cover 95% of what most people want/need, and that’s 90% better than what the other “smart phones” in the market offer.
I don’t think anyone has ever even suggested that iPhone is a real Mac. In fact, whenever anyone here casually (and mistakenly) said that iPhone is running Mac OS X, there was a rush of others correcting the statement that the OS is in fact OS X (not Mac OS X). There were even extensive debates over what constitutes Mac OSX and why iPhone is not running Mac OS X but just OS X, etc.
IPhone was designed to function like any other cellphone. It was NOT meant to compete with smart phones. It was NOT meant to be sold to businesses (actually, you can’t even sign up for a business plan with an iPhone). People are desperately trying to shoehorn it into a purpose for which it’s not meant to be used. While that’s perfectly legal and legitimate, it is also irrelevant.
I’m always intrigued by tinkerers, experimenters and hackers. They possess ingenuity and creativity and resourcefulness, which is generally very positive. It reminds me of a story with an old Apple II computer. A guy shows his Apple II to a friend: “Check this out! Look at it!” The guy says: “So what?” “What do you mean, so what?? It’s not supposed to do that!”. After weeks of tinkering and writing code, the hacker was able to produce a colour image on a computer that supported no colour. It had no value to anyone else, but the hacker was immensely proud of his achievement.
In a similar way, most of hacker efforts with the iPhone have very little practical value to a mainstream iPhone user. Yet, hackers are very proud of their accomplishments. Generally, they definitely have a place in this industry and serve a certain purpose. They are definitely on Apple’s radar somewhere and keep the company’s focus on the right things.
SDK will be coming. Perhaps not for iPod Touch, but definitely for the iPhone (or maybe even for both using the same tool). Apple wants to keep the user experience pristine. They have plenty of time. Everything here is about pacing. First US market; then UK, Ger/Fra (if possible); then slowly figure out how to get into Japan, far East, eventually world. Nothing can (or should) happen overnight. You can’t grow a 8-pound baby into a 100-pound teenager in 20 weeks. Just be patient, folks.
The iPhone is an iPod Touch with a Cell Phone nothing more. Is it kewl sure is and it’s revolutionary too. It’s not a smart phone so much as it’s a fully Web enabled cell phone. The iPhone Dev team needs to be sued for bricking iPhones. Apple didn’t brick a single iPhone with Firmware update 1.1.1 the iPhone Dev team and the other hackers bricked the iPhones because they are the ones that damaged the firmware on the hacked iPhones.
It’s all “cat and mouse” from here on out, until Apple releases a proper SDK for the iPhone.
I am not interested in a hack of iPhone or iTouch.
I love the way it is from Apple.
Please let the unoffical iPhone Dev team RIP.
Or better yet – spend their time producing Apps or Games for this wonderful hardware. As it seems their are more who just want the thing to work as is and are happy opposed to those who want it their special way.
And to Apple – Please protect your device. The competitiors are very hungry and obvious BELIEVE that iPhone is the BEST thing out.
it seems to me that apple is using all the “hacks” as part of its development of the iphone to find exploits then plug them.
“It’s all ego.”
And testosterone… wait, Erica… that’s not a guy’s name is it? Hmmmmm.
I can’t believe that the hackers are spending their time and energy to hack the iPhone and/or iPod touch — too much free time!
“releases a proper SDK for the iPhone.”
BWAHAHAHAHA! AAA HA HA HA HA! Hee hee hee hee! Hooooo. Ahem!
I actually thought for a moment that you believed that a proper SDK would stop the iPhone hacking
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” /> Hackers don’t hack because there isn’t a proper SDK, they hack because they WANT to. Sometimes other user benefit from their work, but Apple will NEVER create an SDK that will make all of them happy and the hacks will continue!
Actually, if you go read TUAW, where Erica Sadun posts, you’ll see that they actually do have apps running on the iPhone 1.1.1. How’s about you check your facts before calling anything misleading?
it can’t be. What market share the iPhone does have? There cannot be any hacker interested into breaking into the iPhone yet: it has a much smaller market share presence than the Mac on the market.
Hackers do not hack the Mac because it is *just* ~6% or so. They cannot spend their precious time in hacking something that has less than 1% market. Cannot be. Can it?
ANYTHING, IF CAN BE HACKED IT WILL BE, JUST BECAUSE AND JUST TO PROVE IT IS BREAKABLE.
MARKET SHARE IS IRRELEVANT.
Let’s the trolls now explaining us that Mac OS X is not hacked because nobody cares about such a small target.
I think all the people who waste time posting their opinions about how others choose to spend their time should be more productive and put that time towards more worthy causes. Oh wait…
Seriously. Those of you criticizing the iPhone dev team need to realize that there is a demand for what they are doing, and maybe, just maybe, they do what they do because they enjoy it, and find it challenging and educational at the same time. There are probably hundreds of thousands of iPhone owners who want to run third party apps on their iPhone and/or to unlock their iPhone so they can use it on other carriers, which is a legal right in both the US and Europe.
I’m really curious how Apple and European carriers are going to get around the law that requires carriers to unlock customer’s GSM phones upon request. I’m guessing that come November, unlocked iPhones will be readily available in North America via European importers.
@anonymous
Actually, if you go read TUAW, where Erica Sadun posts, you’ll see that they actually do have apps running on the iPhone 1.1.1.
One person has installed the apps, probably using ftp or ssh. She/he apparently hasn’t used AppTapp to do so. Until this is done, it’s not useful to the majority of iPhone users.
How’s about you check your facts before calling anything misleading?
Look up the definitions of “inaccurate” (what I said) and “misleading” (what you said) and get back to us.
Its really a case of self importance, IMHO.
When I was young you did hacking , if you got caught you accepted the penalty.
Now a days, its you get caught and you cry like a baby that the mean man ruined your fun.
How childish.
Look you modified the firmware, you knew before you purchaased the iPhone what it could and could not do, you proceeded to think you knew better and you were going to re-write the rules.
You were warned repeatedly that if you changed the firmware in violation of the end-user agreement that you agreed to that you RISKED damaging your iPhone because Apple can’t take responsibility for what someone else programmed.
OK, you decide to modify (mod) your iPhone – that’s your choice. You were warned and then it happens – your iPhone gets bricked.
Instead of being an adult about it, you start to cry and whine and carry-on as a 3-year old.
Be an adult, accept the consequences for what you do!!
@ZT Don’t you mean you have to Zune?
Agreed, a complete waste of time and effort…