“In a statement on their blog, the Dev Team have announced that they will not be providing any further patches for the 4.0.x branch of the iPhone’s firmware, preferring instead to just work on a hack for version 4.1, which is currently in beta,” Electricpig reports. “‘With FW 4.1 still in its beta stages, it makes no sense to escalate the ‘cat & mouse’ with Apple for FW updates that only fix the jailbreak holes. To quote WOPR [the computer from WarGames], ‘the only winning move is not to play.””
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Some of the jailbroken features are nice but I’m getting tired of restarting springboard all the time. Especially for simple things like changing the brightness via sbssettings
Most Brits live on an island and don’t have boats. You calling them all assholes?
i’m in the Army, and i went to the new Apple display center at the PX here on post (its a section like what Best Buy’s have). all six of the iPad’s on display had been jailbroken. thought it was a bit funny.
@RealityCzech
It’s a quote from WarGames.
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I wa surprised they released a jailbreak for 4.0.1 to begun with.
Thought they would wait for 4.1 since it was already in beta at the time.
It’s not really news IMO. They always do this.
It’s certainly not the first time they’ve focused on upcoming releases and skipped over what’s currently available.
This makes perfect sense. The whole point of 4.0.2 was to patch the hole that was used in jailbreakme…not necessarily to prevent jailbreaking but to patch a potential security threat.
However, if you already jailbroke, you were able to patch the hole before 4.0.2 came out and therefore would see no benefit to upgrading to 4.0.2.
Releasing a jailbreak tool for 4.0.2 would do two things:
1) Serve a fraction of people who upgraded to 4.0.2 and are now interested in jailbreaking.
2) Expose the method they plan to use for jailbreaking 4.1 which is still in beta and if the method is exposed Apple could patch it before release.
It seems better to let the people who have 4.0.2 wait until 4.1 comes out before releasing the new jailbreak than to lose a method of jailbreaking.
@Reality Czech
Uhh, yea!
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“What kind of an asshole lives on an island and he doesn’t even have a boat?”
A guy with a helicopter.
I for one think it is a great move. I cannot imagine NOT having my Jailbroken iPad and iPhone 4 tethered together, like they SHOULD be.
Well I grew up in Seattle, and I’m a solid swimmer.
It should be score for jail breakers dev team. If it wasn’t for them the major exploit could of done more damage to apple’s rep. It was the dev team’s work that pushed apple to release 4.0.2. A fix which you can do yourself if you have jail broken phone. 4.0.2 was only released to close that hole and that hole only, no major upgrades or long list of fixes.
Oh by the way. Miwi is worth the cost if you only have wifi iPad. Saved me $130 plus monthly fees.
@uh oh
Like the dude who invented the scooter that no one but Woz rides and the miracle water purifier that no one will invest in.
How exactly is this a score one for apple?
4.1 will be released in a matter of a few weeks, possibly sooner.
and 4.0.2 is a useless update for anyone who is jailbroken. The one and only exploit it patches can be patched through Cydia.
Fact is, they probably have an exploit already that is likely to also be present in 4.1 and don’t want to reveal it before 4.1 comes out so it doesn’t get patched.
Please explain to me again how the dev team loses by not doing unnecessary work?
MacDailyNews Take: What kind of an asshole lives on an island and he doesn’t even have a boat?
Robinson Crusoe
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The headline is very misleading.
It makes you believe that they’re done jailbreaking, when in fact, they’re not.
They know 4.1 is coming, and they have the beta, so that is what they are working on.
Nothing to see here…
Thank you TheConfuzed1, I was thinking the same thing. The MDN hype machine keeps rolling strong!
Wow, a movie star
Is North America not an island? It is surrounded by water. Those of you who disagree, take a tour of the Panama Canal on Google Earth.
So probably someone needs to learn how to swim – especially when from Seattle
dba, why do you have to restart springboard when you set brightness via sbsettings? I’ve never had to do that
Last time I checked, Seattle was not on an island. Maybe they moved it off shore.
When my iPhone is locked it doesn’t work half the time.
Love the boat reference from War Games, too!!!
I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it’d do any good!
Cat and Mouse game sucks when you are the Mouse…