iPhone Rehacked: iPhone Dev Team: 2, Apple, Inc: 0

[edvelarde]

http://www.unconfirmedsources.com/?itemid=2801


iPhone Rehacked: iPhone Dev Team 2, Apple, Inc 0

by Kamal El-Din

iPhone rehacked?Unconfirmed sources report that the iPhone Dev Team has rehacked the Apple iPhone after the latest firmware update. The iPhone Dev Team group that did the new hack was lead by Swedish teen wonder hacker Nutzipper. The iPhone Dev Team claims the rehack was accomplished in just 17 hours and was a group effort that included over 100 volunteer coders. The hack is expected to be posted in a few days as the installer app to implement it is completed.
"It looks like round two of the iPhone war is going to the iPhone Dev Team." Says phone expert Olin Pots. "I gotta tell you I'm not surprised. The iPhone Dev Team is a large group of highly motivated people with nothing better to do. They probably outnumber the Apple coders on this project by 4 to 1. I think it is going to be a losing battle for Apple."
The hacker that lead the team that rehacked the iPhone is a real star in the hacking community. Coming out of nowhere last year Nutzipper was behind the DRM Wi-Fi hack that turned the Zune into a DRM free music broadcasting unit. This latest effort accomplished with the iPhone Dev Team proves that he is no one hit wonder. Nutzipper has show that he is cross platform capable and has the skills to make dent where ever he chooses.
Apple will not doubt redouble their efforts to relock the iPhone and assure that they will still get their piece of the revenue sharing they negotiated with AT&T. It is however a sad commentary on the arraignment when a company must do battle with it's own customers for their business model to work.
Given the will of the hacking community to keep this platform open one could expect that after a while Apple will tire of spending the resources to defend it. And when that happens the functionality of the unit and it's popularity will probably explode.

[skinhead]

". The iPhone Dev Team is a large group of highly motivated people with nothing better to do. They probably outnumber the Apple coders on this project by 4 to 1. I think it is going to be a losing battle for Apple"

lolz.. good thing it didnt take too long..

2-0 pala standing, tot its 2-1 hehe

[josecarlo1129]

Awesome(if in case this one is confirmed)! Can't wait to purchase songs thru iTunes(Wi-fi).

[aragorn_109]

It is however a sad commentary on the arraignment when a company must do battle with it's own customers for their business model to work.
Given the will of the hacking community to keep this platform open one could expect that after a while Apple will tire of spending the resources to defend it. And when that happens the functionality of the unit and it's popularity will probably explode.

This sums it all up. I guess Apple has learned its lesson being just relatively new to the mobile industry. Didn't they wonder why Nokia and Sony Ericsson hardly lock their units exclusively to specific carriers?

They should not have tied up with the carriers in the first place. They can already make more than enough profit with the sale of units alone. Call it greed.

Come on Steve Jobs... You've admitted mistakes before. It's time to give in to the public clamor. Go ahead and officially release the unlocked iPhone worldwide. It will be your best Christmas gift to everyone. I'm sure with the worldwide profits of the unlocked iPhone, you can easily pay AT&T's lawyers a settlement to shut them up.

[ice_man]

yahooo... now on waiting mode for the installer App. Now my credit card would surely suffer even more. iTunes wifi, here we come..nyahahaha...

[itnetad]

Nice this is such a good news!

[gpo74]

that was fast

[edvelarde]

by the way guys this article is still uncofirmed..

[itnetad]

Here's the instructions http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/ind...1.1.1_to_1.0.2

[den_lim]

Problem is... Apple is locked into contracts with several carriers already in different countries. They won't be able to make it open til they expire.