Ok maybe I missed something. But assuming the software on the watch is able to be jail broken, so we can put whatever we want on it. How is it possible to do this. I was under the assumption that you need first a jailbreakable device. A sync cable for the device, and software loaded on a PC. The watch only comes with a magnetic charger, and the watch. So someone explain to me how they will be able to load the jailbreak software onto the watch? OTA?
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How will the watch be able to be jail broken?
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They've done it with the iPhone OTA before.
I guess untill the Apple Watch is in the wild nobody knows exactly, but where there's a will, there's a way.
Hopefully all it takes is a jailbroken phone and hacks to the watch app.
Since the watch is basically just a remote display for the phone atm, this is all that should be needed.
Now when the watch can run apps natively, it may need to be jailbroken itself.
Since the watch is basically just a remote display for the phone atm, this is all that should be needed.
Now when the watch can run apps natively, it may need to be jailbroken itself.
I was just curious how it works. Cause any other device I have had that I tried to jailbreak required me to plug it to the computer. So it had me wondering.
One of the first jailbreaks could be done by simply clicking a link on a website. The payload was downloaded and self-installed.
I would bet that with a jailbroken phone, there may be a way to crash the watch with special code sent from the jailbroken phone to the watch. I really have no idea, but that would be the first path I would take.
hopefully the first jailbreak feature will be to allow for notifications to come in to the watch without your phone being around, but still connected to data, like the new Android Wear update.