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Mark Kurlyandchik - June 7, 2011 7:37 AM

25 comment(s) - last by Pessimism.. on Jun 8 at 9:10 AM

(Source: twitter.com/musclenerd)

Tethered jailbreak works day after new Apple OS is announced

It's only been a day since Apple announced iOS 5 and the updated OS has already been jailbroken.

IPhone Dev Team member MuscleNerd posted evidential screenshots on his Twitter account depicting SSHing utility app iSSH successfully installed from Cydia on his 4th-generation iPod touch.

According to Redmond Pie, the jailbreak is currently limited to tethered boot only, meaning the device has to be connected to a computer during every reboot. However, MuscleNerd and his crew are no doubt working on an untethered jailbreak (although it probably won’t be released until iOS 5 goes to Golden Master).

IOS 5 is currently available to developers only in beta 1 form and is set to launch to the general public later this fall. It includes 1,500 new APIs and 200-some new features, the following 10 of which were highlighted yesterday: a new Notification Center, News Stand, integrated Twitter support, updated Mobile Safari, Reminders, some new functions in the Camera app, greater functionality in Mail, OTA software updates and activation, iMessage, and updates to Game Center.

One other feature that wasn’t highlighted on stage yesterday was Wi-Fi Sync for iOS devices. Users will now be able to wirelessly sync with their Mac or PC (Hello, Microsoft Zune). Syncing (including apps, music, and backups) will take place when your iOS device is plugged into a wall charger.

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RE: I wonder...

By B3an on 6/7/2011 4:46:05 PM , Rating: 1

Google need to seriously sort out there Android Market for developers. Even though Android has far more users now, apps still sell way less than on Apples App Store. My app and many other devs that i know often have literally 10x more sales on the App Store compared to the same version of an app on Android Market.

Some of the reasons are that with the Android Market it's not forced upon users to register a credit card in order to use the market. So most people cant be bothered to ever do it at a later date.
Secondly, when you put your app on the market as free, you can not change it to a payed app at a later date, which is a proven and good way to make money on the App Store.

I mush prefer Android apart from these big issues.
One thing that seriously annoyed me with the App Store, apart from having to jump through a million hoops to get my app on there, is that i NEEDED to use a Mac in order to actually upload my app to the store.

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RE: I wonder...

By aharris02 on 6/7/2011 5:16:42 PM , Rating: 2

Agreed on all counts.

Apple is currently being sued for anticompetitive practices related to their "Must have Apple to create/upload iOS apps" practice. We'll see what comes of it; I'd like to see iOS development opened up, but I highly doubt it'll arrive.

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RE: I wonder...

By Pessimism on 6/8/2011 9:10:44 AM , Rating: 2

Strongly disagree. I absolutely HATE, with a passion, any sort of site or service that puts a registration wall between you and the product or service. Even worse is requiring credit card preverification when you may have zero intention of EVER purchasing a paid app and wish to stick to free software. Choice for the consumer is never a bad thing.

Apple shoots themselves in the foot by making it prohibitively difficult to publish an app, and requiring that it be done from a mac.

RIM shoots themselves in the foot by requiring developers to pay $20 for a certificate to access most of the phone's functionality (proprietary/device specific java APIs). This alone has prevented me from writing a couple little mini utilities I have thought up in the past.

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