Coder cracks iPad 2 jailbreak block iDevice owners, including folk with an iPad 2, can now jailbreak their phones'n'fondleslabs with a simple visit to a website. The site, www.jailbreakme.com, is once again up and running - coder comex last had it live a year ago - to open up iPads, GSM iPhone 3GS and 4s, and 3G and 4G iPod Touches, all running iOS 4.3, 4.3.3 or …
It's a great service for someone who acquires a second hand iGadget or technology-illiterate person who bought it not knowing any better. But why anyone would buy a device knowing ahead of time they would have to go to extra trouble to defeat hostile software before it was fully usable is beyond me.
I got sick and tired of wasting my time to jailbreak my phones. Its like fighting Jobs tooth and nail for every inch, cause he doesn't want me to be the owner of the crap I paid him for.
Cause in the U.S. Apple/AT&T will *never* unlock your phone, even after you fulfilled your contract, because there's no law protecting consumers from having their phone turned into a worthless paperweight every 2 years - unless you jailbreak...
Good thing that there's now technically more advanced phones.
And since iPads mainly serve as a crack-pipe for the new crack "online addiction" the thought of buying one never crossed my mind.
Bought my last phone in Germany... even though its on a contract, no branding, no SIM lock from the start, cause I got it from a 3rd party distribution partner of Vodafone. Switching it from German to English took 10 seconds. I'll never buy another phone in the U.S. and certainly none from Crapple...
I get that there's something of a race to be the first to crack it but IOS5 is round the corner, most users are going to want to upgrade to that and it's hard to imagine Apple isn't going to plug an exploit that gives a website root access just by visiting. Should have saved this till after the update.
Don't pay a company to stop you using your phone.
Until Apple allow "jailbreaking" as a reduced-cost alternative, since you're not paying fro a guarantee, the only people "jailbreaking" are spoiled little rich kids with time to waste.
If you have the intelligence to jailbreak an iProduct you have the intelligence to know that is just sells more iProducts and pays for a patent troll.
I have an iPad 2 and would try this, but after jailbreaking my 3GS I couldn't find anything worthwhile in the 'unofficial' store to make jailbreaking worth the (minor) effort.
The only other advantage seems to be so you can pirate official apps, which kind of nullifies the moral high ground of the anti-walled-garden campaigners...
Any advice on essential unofficial apps?
Well I guess the only essential is PDF Patcher 2, which protects you from the exploit they used to jailbreak in the first place. I've jailbroken my iPhone for that alone.
SBSettings is another useful one as it gives you quick access to Wifi, BT and 3G toggles etc.
Other than that I agree, there is little point in jailbreaking.
with iOS5 just around the corner, with arguably sufficient improvements to warrant upgrading to, then should you find there are any unofficial apps that you use, you'll be getting rid of them again in a couple of months.
besides, I've still yet to see any real must-have app that would really necessitate jailbreaking
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