One of the few remaining reasons to jailbreak an iPhone could be gone with the arrival of iPhone OS 4.0, which is expected sometime this Summer, leaving tethering as the one marquee feature still not available to U.S. users. Are you still jailbreaking?
The details of the contract the mothership makes iPhone developers sign have been little more than whispers and legend. Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published an older version of the document in full and the picture it paints is less than flattering.
How do you conclude an article about how Apple has largely defeated iPhone app piracy through a combination of new hardware and clever software design? Well, of course, you should now make Apple and its hatred of freedom — they hate freedom — the “new” threat.
In the alternate universe inhabited by elite iPhone hackers and software pirates, this has got to be like becoming an Eagle Scout. Or, perhaps more appropriately, like the authors of ’60s and ’70s trashy grocery store novels getting a publicity boost by being banned in Boston.
Apple has issued an update for the iPhone / Touch operating systems to close five security flaws, four of which were sufficiently serious that they would have allowed an exploiter to execute software on the target device.
Ma Bell got it together and responded to Verizon’s all-in-one calling plan price cuts, which is a welcome change. Nevertheless, the company’s “unlimited” data plans won’t be meaningful to iPhone users until tethering arrives.
In a year when hackers are expected to make Adobe Flash and Acrobat the focus of their unwanted attentions, there are still people out there who want Flash on the iPhone. I guess it’s a matter of taste, like having bits of metal pushed through your skin or trying the Jackass movie stunts at home.
Another New Year has come and gone, and AT&T still hasn’t delivered on their promise to allow iPhone users and their “unlimited” data plans to use their smartphones as modems. Yes, of course, you can hack your iPhone to use tethering, but that also opens you up to some really scary malware.
The fateful day has come and what of Fake Steve Jobs’ call to iPhone to rise up and bring Ma Bell’s data network? Apparently not much other than a generous amount of media and blog attention, but that’s nothing to sneeze at.
The world took a turn into the surreal when Fake Steve Jobs (a.k.a. Dan Lyons) made his now infamous call to terms and urged iPhone owners to take part in a flash mob protest where users would use as much data as possible in order to bring Ma Bell’s data network to its knees. Now, AT&T has responded and, if there’s any doubt the company is utterly clueless, this should put that notion to rest.
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