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End of Jailbreaking......
Apple's new iTunes surprise: No more jailbreaking
Posted by Matt Asay
You just bought a new MacBook Pro. You can't wait to pull it out of the box and sync it with your shiny new iPhone. Perhaps you travel abroad a lot, and you can't afford to pay AT&T's insane international roaming rates (Who can?). Or perhaps you have an application that Apple won't provide you through its App Store but that can be installed on a jailbroken phone.
If you have a new MacBook, you may be out of luck. If you have Windows, however, you should be fine. The irony is stifling.
Gizmodo is reporting that Apple has found a novel way to prevent the jailbreaking of its iPhones, one that no cracking of the iPhone firmware is going to fix. This time, Apple apparently is using a custom build of iTunes in the newest MacBook line to stymie attempts to jailbreak iPhones:
The new aluminum MacBooks...don't seem to be able to recognize an iPhone or iPod Touch when it is booted into DFU mode, a vital requirement for jailbreaking...Though the hardware is where one sees the most conspicuous changes in the new MacBook, this problem most likely stems from a subtle software modification. It's not clear what specifically changed, but a new build of iTunes, unique to the new MacBooks, seems like a likely culprit.
In this iPhone cat-and-mouse game, Apple seems to be turning to ever more ingenious methods to keep cash rolling in the door. Customers? Well, their best bet for circumventing Apple's wily ways is to jailbreak the iPhone using Windows-based iTunes.
How ironic (and sad) is that? The more we buy into Apple, the less freedom. Sounds like Microsoft, doesn't it? This time, however, it's worse, because Apple also controls the hardware.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10081924-16.html?tag=bnpr
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Posted: 2008-11-04 18:19:22
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Hmmm...
Well sadly for Apple, Quickpwn was created so the restoring of custom firmware through itunes is no longer necessary so they might not be as clever as they think! The dev team are always a step ahead
And once it's jailbroken, even if you needed to restore a custom firmware to an iphone/ipod touch, you dont need to put it in to DFU mode, just a shift+click on restore and away you go...
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Posted: 2008-11-04 18:29:49
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the Dev team are always one step ahead
on a serious note, this is one of the reasons i dislike apple as a company and the way they manage the whole iphone business, they cripple the phone refuse to give the most basic of capabilities and expend all this time and energy into trying to stop people from improving it
i will not feel guilty the next time i install a cracked app
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Posted: 2008-11-04 18:37:19
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i love apple and it's stupid tactics.. guess they want all the iphone users out there to give up on the new macs and switch back to pc's...
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Posted: 2008-11-04 18:45:26
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They mananged to lock out unlocking altogether on the 3G model so who knows what they have up their sleeve next.
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Posted: 2008-11-05 10:03:36
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How so? The dev team are close to an unlock the last time i heard...
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Posted: 2008-11-05 10:29:54
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Really? That's good news. Shows what I know haha.
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Posted: 2008-11-05 11:11:50
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just been playing around with an N96 and realised that you can watch and download bbc iplayer programs over 3g as well as wifi, maybe i am using it wrong?? but i can only ever watch it over wifi on the iphone
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Posted: 2008-11-05 13:07:01
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Yep iphone is just WIFI only.
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Posted: 2008-11-05 13:44:27
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thats a bummer, i wonder if this was an apple decision or O2, becuase even an N96 on O2 will be able to watch it over 3g
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Posted: 2008-11-05 14:04:19
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