I don’t generally talk about current news here, but the drama behind the 3g iPhone jailbreak is driving me nuts. Here’s a play-by play, as I understand it (I’m no insider, i’ve just been curious about the process) - it would be neat to add dates to this in the future for nostalgia..
- Original iPhone Released
- iphone-dev, with GeoHotz (George Hotz) begin the process of unlocking/jailbreaking.
- GeoHotz gets booted from the iphone-dev team
- GeoHotz releases his own version of the unlock called “gunlock”
- Zibri adds an easy interface to gunlock and posts the app - garnering much of the credit in the process - ziphone.org
Fast Forward to July 2008:
- iphone 3g is released 7/11/2008.
- iphone-dev and George Hotz independently (but still sharing) develop the 3g jailbreak/unlock process. (created before the release of the iPhone, but not quite ready for mainstream release) 7/13/2008
- GeoHotz is anxious to get the product out on the network, so he sets up a site taunting iphone-dev that he will release his process on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 11:00am CST if iphone-dev doesn’t release theirs.
Now we wait. Whatever happens, it looks like we’ll have a jailbreak/unlock by Tuesday!
iphone-dev: http://iphone-dev.org
GeoHotz’ taunt: http://yiphone.org
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