Comments on: Jailbreaking iPhone 2.0 works (but…)

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:31:44 +0000

Furthermore, not all of these applications may have someone willing to fork out $99 to put them on the app store.

By: iFono

iFono — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:54:00 +0000

The only negative thing about the AppStore, which I really do love, is that much of what was free in the jailbreak environment of 1.1.4 is now available at cost. Though Apple has provisions for free stuff on the App Store, the developer still has to shell out $100 to be able to distribute it. That doesn’t exactly translate into a good environment for free software developers. That’s where jailbreaking still has a place, but it’s true that after the jailbreak, there is virtually nothing to load! All the stuf I wanted won’t run.

I love Apple, but their control freak attitude is beginning to put a damper on progress and application freedom.

By: meatleg

meatleg — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:19:43 +0000

Recording video on your iPhone!
http://monsterandfriends.com/iphonevideo
DUH!

By: Bill Taroli

Bill Taroli — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:43:49 +0000

Well, I do agree that as much as possible developers should probably move to the AppStore. BUT you will find that many of the applications written in the pre-AppStore days are taking advantage of OS features NOT available in the SDK. A good example of this (for my needs, YMMV) is SyncJe (a SyncML client). A competitor, Synthesis, has a working prototype in AppStore (or at least they submitted it, it hasn’t posted still)… but they can’t actually implement full functionality. Why? Because the SDK doesn’t give anyone access to the PIM data /except/ for contacts. How STUPID! They can’t synchronize the calendar because there’s no API for it.

So, I suspect there are still going to be a whole class of applications that still need to work around Apple’s lack of vision (or was it just time?) in the SDK. Maybe the SDK will catch up, maybe it won’t. But until then we need an avenue to make full use of our devices, despite what Cupertino thinks we should be doing with them.

By: Sierran

Sierran — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:18:53 +0000

Some of this ‘older’ software adds functionality that Apple has flatly said will not be allowed through the App Store and/or which the SDK does not support, such as direct filesystem access or patching Apple applications. As an example, I (on 1.1.4) spent a great deal of time reading HTML E-books on my iPhone which I copied there using scp (already a no-no, touching the real filesystem) and viewing them with Safari - which had been patched (BIG NONO) to read file:// URLs. These two bits of kit will almost certainly never show up in the App store. There are lots more examples.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:38:10 +0000

“The older software should eventually be updated and ‘ported’ to Cydia but, for now, ‘you will have to be patient.’”

Maybe the older software should be “ported” to the App Store then no jailbreak would be required.

Sheesh…