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Early Apple TV Jailbreak Opens Door to Apps

Bevz said:
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However if that is Apple's plan, it does show lack of vision, laziness and contempt for their customers, which is a shame.
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Dam if they do, dam if they don't. Apple never wins in your eyes.

Let's see, you acuse apple of:

1. Lack of vision
2. Laziness
3. Contempt for their customers
4. Shameful behavior

Not worth answering to you. You have probably never created any thing in your life worth a dam. If you would, you would not have uttered all the nonsense expressed in your useless post.

Also, every one knows that pirate did not do a thing because of 'freedom'.
 
So does this mean I can play Angry Birds on my 55" flat-screen? My wife is going to hate cleaning those fingerprints.
 
"PwnageTool"
I find the whole subculture of jailbreakers kind of sad. Imagine sitting in your basement using your valuable time to hack into a 99 dollar gizmo, and when done, having exactly nothing.
 
Bevz said:
I agree, and massive kudos to the jailbreakers!!!

The second they get some apps installed on this thing (Plex with NAS support, BBC iPlayer, LOCAL STORAGE VIA A USB HD etc etc) via a jailbreak i'll be buying this thing so fast my credit card will have scorch marks on it!!!! In fact i may just buy one now just so i can be part of this.... Perhaps as you say that's their game; either way they sell more ATVs.. the serious techies are happy as they have jailbroken ATV's, there is no phone company giving them grief about people hacking the device, they get to sell more ATV's, and apple get to sit back and see what apps work well on it!!
However if that is Apple's plan, it does show lack of vision, laziness and contempt for their customers, which is a shame.
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Same goes for you too.
Really, REALLY sad.
 
Les Kern said:
"PwnageTool"
I find the whole subculture of jailbreakers kind of sad. Imagine sitting in your basement using your valuable time to hack into a 99 dollar gizmo, and when done, having exactly nothing.
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That's not fair. You can say that about anything...like wasting valuable time posting here.

And when they're done they have a sense of accomplishment, the thanks of the community, a gizmo that now does more than it used to and, most importantly, all the hot chicks that now want to sleep with them.
 
OllyW said:
Why does altering something you have purchased to give it more functionality make you hate Apple? :confused:
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Because these Apple fanatics get butt-hurt if you acknowledge that Apple's way isn't always the right way?
 
Now that they have jailbroken it and release a way for us to access it

How do we come to jailbreak it? Would they want us to put the jailbreaking file on a USB drive and plug it in the Apple TV and do the follow steps?

I'm just curious on how it's done because I know how easy it is to jailbreak the iPhone with just going to a URL but what's the case for the Apple TV.
 
Thank the hackers and dev community

We can thank the devteam/jailbreakers that enabled native apps on the iPhone.

Prior to that, when Steve Jobs gave birth to the iPhone in 2007, it was only meant to run Web-Apps. Because of the large interest of the dev community of wanting to code and run native apps and creating a custom tool-chain, Apple then released iPhone SDK 1.0 a year after along with AppStore.

Also, when the first Intel Macs came out, Steve said we are not allowing any other OSes other than Mac OSX to be installed on our Macs. But many people demanded Windows to be run os the iMac including business people. Months later, two hackers managed to create an EFI boot loader and booted to Windows XP. Critics said it was fake while others believed. Soon after that, Apple annouced Bootcamp as a public beta as a means to dual boot to Windows on Intel Macs.

I am not surprised if Apple released AppStore for the AppleTV's soon to be gaining popularity. The only thing that matters is when and "When the time is right."
 
HarryKeogh said:
So does this mean I can play Angry Birds on my 55" flat-screen? My wife is going to hate cleaning those fingerprints.
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Funny story. My wife was on our 24" iMac the other day showing my 4 year old boy a video on YouTube. He wanted her to select a different video so he puts his finger on the screen and trys to flick the screen so it scrolls down.

Think he uses an iPod Touch a little much?
 
Oh, and I really hope the JB can let you hook up a hard drive and enable some of that old functionality, such as buying movies and shows. Because you can't do this I'm sticking with my old ATV.

Just wish the things was cooler!!!
 
BillyBobBongo said:
One wonders if Apple didn't make it this easy to see what would happen. Why develop ideas in house when the Jailbreak community can do it for you.

Will be interesting to see what's possible and what sort of interfaces are best/possible for these sort of Apps.
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Totally agree. I think they did it to soft launch an App Store. Seems Apple went out of their way to make it easy this time.
 
I may be delirious from not having any coffee yet this morning, but what if the dev team was on APPLE'S payroll? I read somewhere that most of the PC viruses are actually created by people working for the antivirus company. I know these are two different things, but it could make sense...maybe?
 
Yay :) I cant wait.

But wow it was fast, apple, come on! Make it hard for them :p

I wonder if apple has learnt anything from the jailbreaks. I think they do, but don't learn enough.

Folders: we get them, but the amount of apps is limited. -.-

Etc. Let's see what comes off this :) come on apps. It will go to show how smart people can be with the remote. Or most likely iPod touch + apple tv apps.
 
i.mac said:
It s sad how many people in this forum hate apple and what they do.
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What? Dude, wipe your eyes and look again. This forum is an Apple love-in. Anybody who doesn't love Apple unreservedly (such as myself) gets it in the neck.

With respect, it's precisely this kind of protectionist behaviour that encourages trolling. If members here weren't so quick to 'get the arse', trolls wouldn't find so much fun here.


As for the subject matter of the thread; Apple really need to pull their collective finger out, because the first Apple TV was pretty much pointless. Not because the hardware was bad, but because the application of it was hideously restrictive.
 
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