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Jailbreak! No, we’re not playing Monopoly.
January 28, 2008, 10:57 pm
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Us preteens aren’t that lazy/ stupid after all. In fact, the ingenious software developer who released “iJailbreak”, the program designed to hack into an iPod’s operating system and add programs like downloader was none other than a 13-year old kid. TAKE THAT, SUCKERS!

What I don’t understand is why this kiddo and his team of nerdy programmers strive so hard to have a new edition of jailbreak for every new OS and gadget Apple releases. I mean really, once they put it on the internet, Mac knows what they did to get into the system, and they release yet another, updated OS that prevents them from doing that. Basically, all their work goes to waste, and they have to start with a clean slate about a month later.

As an iPod Touch owner, I was psyched when our nations nerds came up with a way to personalize the home screen with buttons and backgrounds of your choice, and with options ranging from golden LOTR-themed icons to pink and blue Hello Kitty ones, with more developers making apps and themes each day, every iPod fan was bound to find one for them. Then, Apple released operating system 1.1.3, and that changed everything. Thank god I wasn’t nerdy enough to have figured out how to jailbreak my iPod in 1.1.2, because I have heard that people who had jailbreaked their 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 iPods had many problems with their iTouch crashing once they updated to 1.1.3. Sadly, the only way you can currently jailbreak a 1.1.3 is if you downgrade to 1.1.1or 1.1.2, and seeing how long it took for the dang 1.1.3 OS to download and install, I don’t think it’d be worth the effort.

Besides, we all know a 1.1.4 is around the corner, so why don’t we just wait this one out?

I’m done now.


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1.1.3 jailbreak is out, though it’s not perfect yet.

The thing is the SDK is coming out in Feb. so people will have less reason to jailbreak/unlock their iPhones/iPods, though of course it’ll still happen since Apple is notoriously stingy about SDKs, especially on this platform.

I’ll stop being nerdy now.

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