“What this means is that OpeniBoot produce tools which allow unsigned code to launch on Apple’s devices, which means you can install other operating systems on your device,” Evans reports. “On the iPhone, the team has already managed to get Android into the smartphone, in order that users can launch the Android OS when they power-up their phone, if they so desire.”
Evans reports, “Now the OpeniBoot team are working away to help put Android power inside iPad magic. NextWeb reports there’s a few photos of the developers work so far available via their Twitter feed, and they’ve also released a video of OpeniBoot working on an iPad.”
Full article with more info and the video here.
MacDailyNews Take: Like recording over Elvis’ master tapes with a Vegas impersonator. Fun times!
Sure, I wouldn’t do it, but I go after other challenges. Apparently the thought of experimenting and discovering *how* Apple’s bootcode works falls beyond the imagination of most here.
There are always things to waste one’s time on. but this one is akin to watching paint dry… why would you?
yeah, and I’m going to put kerosene in my Corvette. Some of these guys have TOO MUCH TIME on their hands..
It’s so funny people are wasting their time with things like this. Either they don’t like Apple, because an Apple product always seem to be involved somehow, or they have too much free time. Go and hack a Zune to run Android instead?