lifehacker.com — If a new iPhone or iPod touch found its way under your tree and you just can't wait until Apple officially supports third-party application development to extend its functionality , it's time you jailbreak your favorite new portable device.
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Closed AccountDec 28, 2007
...What? So Apple bricking iPhones and banning IMEIs is turning a 'blind eye' now?The only iPhone 'hacks' I've seen are either difficult hardware hacks or software jailbreaks using unreliable (read: Easily patched) exploits. Face it: Apple cares more about keeping it's contracts with cell-phone companies and keeping the FCC off it's back more than it cares about the minority of iPhone users who run third party apps.
homunculiheadedDec 28, 2007
Also there's huge difference from someone keeping the door to their house unlocked, and giving you the key then setting up a room for you to stay in whenever you like. I just got the nokia n800 and the funnest part of that thing how open it is. In about 1/2 hour of opening the box just about anybody can be ssh'd into the device as root and doing whatever they please. Not to mention that it's trivial to set up a pretty decent python install, and the SDK looks like it's going to be pretty nice to play around with. It has an excellent package manager for third party aps as well (apt-get and something very similar to synaptic). I thought the iphone was awesome, but now I don't think I would so willingly give up the openness.
crackedplasticDec 28, 2007
I love how the article has the "Digg it" icon with 740 Diggs (at this moment), yet the submitter deliberately duped it anyway. Fail.
jlachowinDec 28, 2007
It would be great if my new iPod touch would work with my desktop computer (Vista 64-bit) but Apple doesn't support 64 bit. What a crock of crap.
allthingsthatflyDec 28, 2007
Yeah, I'm lov'n this touch I just got.. man I had no idea I could do all these things I'm doing. I would have bought one sooner.
lilcleo001Dec 28, 2007
Next time you should say IPOD TOUCH, not just IPOD! i was all excited! lol guess im getting an ipod touch!