Sunday, October 18, 2009
Iphone that can't be Jailbroken?
Apple is finally taking action against the Dev Team, notable for coming up with the Jailbreaks for the Ipod Touch's and the Iphone. The new Iphone 3GS has begun shipping with iBoot-359.3.2, a new Bootrom which makes it near impossible for current jailbreak methods, has been introduced. This is the first time that Apple has taken action against Jailbreaks other than with software and hardware changes, actually changing things in line of production. For the time being, recently shipped Iphone 3GS users are going to be unable to jailbreak their devices let alone unlock them.
Now, why is Apple taking action against jailbreaking? The same reason that Sony takes action against homebrew for the PSP, it opens up the door to piracy. There are over 75,000 applications on the app store, all of which can be obtained free and illegally with the jailbreaks. Now, not everyone with a jailbroken Iphone or Ipod touch pirates app store applications, but enough do so to get the developers of the apps to harass Apple. Some time ago, there was a website called haklabs which worked endlessly to report websites that offered hacked applications. Websites like ifortnerforum were forced to shut down their application threads.
I myself have a hacked PSP and at one time I had a jailbroken Ipod Touch (its out of service atm). On my PSP, I enjoyed using homebrew applications, NOT pirating games, and on my Ipod Touch I enjoyed taking advantage of applications from Installer. The installer application was here BEFORE there was even an app store, so being able to run third party applications and beta apps before they were released in the app store like tap tap revenge (called tap tap revolution back then) was fun. I don't condone piracy, but come on Apple, stopping jailbreaking is what you need to do to stop the app piracies. Change the coding in the distributions of applications.
And come on, lets be honest, you can't stop software piracy. It's impossible. The dev team will eventually find an exploit in the new Bootrom and jailbreak it.
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