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10/11/2007, 12:00pm, EDT
Thursday, October 11th
Mail, Google Maps come to hacked iPod touch
Hackers claim to have successfully brought Mail, Google Maps, and other third-party applications to Apple's iPod touch in spite of Apple's decision to ship the device without those programs. The Cupertino-based company began shipping its higher-priced iPhone in late June of this year with Mail and Google Maps built-in, but removed these applications from its iPod touch before launching the WiFi-enabled portable player at a special event on September 5th. Following a series of attempts to break through Apple's security on both its iPhone and iPod touch, hackers managed to 'jailbreak' the devices which allowed them read and write access to the filesystems, which enabled developers to write and install their own non-Web-based software on the gadgets.
Apple's latest iPhone update 1.1.1 effectively 'bricked' -- or rendered useless -- most of the hacked phones, but a new jailbreak surfaced yesterday that once again restores filesystem access to both the iPhone and the iPod touch. Hackers say they have now decrypted the ramdisk of the iPod touch and are busy installing applications, according to Engadget, with Mail and Google Maps already working on their freshly 'jailbroken' touch-sensitive iPods.
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Or there is no need for those apps, because its an iPod, not a phone.
Of course, one has to wonder how much better the phone could be if Apple devoted their resources towards features and bug-fixing and not worrying about encrypting their disks and adding other "security" measures to keep people out of the phone?
As such, this added zero overhead to their development efforts.
As always, testudo is out of the loop, and clueless - is it any surprise?
As s
As such, this added zero overhead to their development efforts.
I'm sorry, how does it NOT have any overhead. They had to code it, debug it, make sure its completely secure and bug-free, before it was even released. Perhaps if they used that time to better develop the features of the iPhone itself, it would be an even better device. Regardless of when it was done, it has taken resources to do. And as they try to keep ahead of the hackers, that also takes effort.
And how do you know the plans were in place to do this two years ago?
As always, testudo is out of the loop, and clueless - is it any surprise?
No, as always, zink misreading and misreporting posts trying to knock other commentators as uninformed or ignorant.