Posts by Confuciousmobil

It is just another iPad.

Which is why I want it.

A pint, because I also want one of those.

The reason Apple will continue to dominate is their business model. No matter how good Android is, most Android tablets need to make all the profit on the sale of the device, the most obvious exception is the Kindle Fire where Amazon have an ongoing revenue stream. Samsung et al, do not.

Windows 8 could change that, if M$ get it right, but Android? Where's the money?

1M users can't be wrong

Since the release on Friday as of last night 950k people had used the new JB.

I'm sure it will be well over 1 Million by this morning.

That is in addition to the millions that were already JB on earlier devices.

Thank you 'Dream Team'

Congrats

Well done @cmwdotme - Cat and mouse begins.

I'm no wierdo

Bought my first iPhone 3 years ago, kept it nearly 2 years (far, far longer than any other phone ove owned) and upgraded to the iP4. Love it.

Bought an iPad cheap just before the 2 came out and love it too. I now use my iPhone a lot less, given the choice I would have the iPad, but I am lucky, I have both.

I could go Android but I prefer a device that just works, I've spent to many years having to fiddle with devices just to get them to do the basics.

I do a bit of jailbreaking - originally to unlock my phone but now just because I like the aditional tweaks it enables (which, I'm sure, android owners will say it should do OOB -provided you configure it right). I love the appswhich are cheep or free from the app store and just work. Well.

When the iPhone first came out I couldn't see anything it did that my WinMo phone couldn't do, on paper the spec wasn't as good. How wrong I was. Just like people who judge devices purely by their paper spec are now.

Before my iPhone I was anti Apple, now I have an iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.

I don't intend changing soon and wil see whats available when I do, but at the moment I can't see anything that will tempt me away.

The iPhone is expensive, lots of people will settle for a cheaper android phone but the iPad is better than any other tablet, anything that comes even remotly close is the same price. Until someone else can have an ongoing revenue stream as Apple does with the App store I don't see that changing any time soon.

YMMV

Ownership

One thing Apple have that no one else (except, to an extent, Google) is ownership of the revenue stream.

For example, Apple can sell the iPad at a price where they can't be undercut by the competition as they don't make 'much' money on each device. But they do have a continuous revenue stream thereafter from the App store.

If you licence an OS or make your OS open so anyone can sell apps for it then you have no additional revenue source and need to make all your money on the hardware.

People might not like Apple's control freakery but as a business model it works very well.

That is what Samsung is trying to emulate with Bada - wether they succeed or not remains to be seen, but it's all about the downstream revenue. Licensing someone else's OS doesn't cut it as you don't get the revenue.

I might be wrong but.....

Mac only

Apart from being only available in the USA it is also nly available on Macs not Windows.

Chances of it reaching the UK are slim with our antiquated laws as we're not even allowed to rip our CDs....

That's why....

I, and most people I know, don't use Google +

their 'real name' policy has driven lots of people away who don't want to use their real name, but the arrogance of zgoogle to reject people with real names that don't comply with their narrow view of what a 'real name' should be is quite astounding.

Help is at hand!

I have compiled a pack to help you avoid these scams.

Send me £1000 for details....

Objection!

Mr Hotz only started looking at the PS3 recently.

I object to private conversations which have nothing to do with Sony being released to them.

There will be a lot of very confidential information relating to other projects. Why has the judge allowed Sony access to this?

Apple bashing

So, Apple improve the speed in Safari and people complain because it's not improved everywhere?

If Apple don't fix this over site in the next FW release then please feel free to continue with your Apple bashing. But until then, I will give them the benefit of the doubt.

I'm sure many others won't - but haters gotta hate.

Piracy

I am surprised at El Reg condoning piracy.

Lion is currently in Beta for registered developers only. Downloading it from other sources is piracy and should be condemned, not encouraged.

Light it up

Geohot's rap video on YouTube sums up what he thinks of Sony.

Fixed

There is a simple fix for this in Cydia now at the machackpc repo.

I'm not sure of the legalities of Apple selling iBooks and then stopping you reading them on a legitimately Jailbroken device though.

Geohot not a member of FailOverflow

George might not be a member of FailOverflow but he worked with them (or most of them) before he was kicked out of the original iPhone Dev Team for doing just what he did with the PS3, doing his own thing and releasing early without thought of the consequences.

It never ceased to amaze me just how few people have the skill to actually do hacking at this level.

They are very, very clever people and I hope that this case fails, but I hope more that none of these guys actually gets a job with a console/phone maker - then we would have fail proof security!

They do it again...

It never ceases to amaize me how few people can actually do this level of hacking. Bushing and Marcan, two of Fail0ver, were original members of the iPhone Dev Team, as was GeoHot who's exploit resulted in OtherOS being removed in the first place.

Comex, another well known Wii hacker is now helping with the iPhone.

The same people work on all devices to free them so people can use their own software - pirating is not, nor ever has been, the aim, of these very, very clever people.

The more I learn of their methods the more humbled and grateful I am.

Engleand

The page is now updated to say "What's up Apple's sleeve? Apparently, England's favorite mopheads. "

SHAtter

The SHAtter exploit was found by pod2g and has been given to the Chronic Dev Team as well as the iPhone Dev Team.

It will take a change in the hardware to fix it.

Handcuffs?

Am I the only one who thinks that the US treat everyone like animals? Why handcuff him? Was he a threat?

Mind you, I'm sure they wouldn't be allowed to treat animals like that.

I think it's a brilliant way to resign but I'm sure he'll regret it when his case gets out of the limelight and he gets sentenced to 90 years hard labour....

Comex - not Dev Team

The JailBreak was developed by Comex with help from the Dev Team, posixninja and others. It was not developed by the Dev Team.

It is the beta of iOS4.1 it doesn't work with but the FaceTime and MMS issues have been fixed.

It Jailbreaks all devices on iOS4.01 (I believe the problems with the iPad on 3.21 have also been fixed) but iPhones need to be activated first.

The unlock - which has been developed by the Dev Team will be released provided testing goes well over the next 48 hours.

Hmmm

I saw the headline and wondered why a hedgehog would want to buy retrospect...

iPhone

I'm not quite sure what the point of this is?

Are they after a replacement for the 24kPwn exploit or something else?

An offer of $10K prompted Geohot to unlock BB 05.11.07 but he turned down the money when he found out who it was from. Maybe he'll be tempted by this. The Dev Team don't work for money so I doubt if this will interest them, but if other hackers get an interest in the iPhone it might be good.

I am concerned that any exploit made public will be blocked by Apple - this competition is run by a security company.

In the case of browsers there is no advantage to having exploits. In the case of smartphones, to block these exploits will be very, very bad news for millions of JailBreakers.

I hope that if someone does find a 24kPwn replacement it is used for the good of the community rather than some small financial gain.