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Because if he set a release date and could not meet it it would be both bad for his reputation and his continence.
If he doesn't set a predefined release date, and releases it a day late, he will still be a god.
But he was already on his second teaser page with rumors that its close, why put up such a blatant "updating now" teaser if he DOESNT know hes about to release it? Whats the point?
If hes not actually about to release, it comes of as messing with all his followers for no reason. Im still hoping its arriving any hour here though...
First teaser page...ski slope
Second teaser page...far too long
Third teaser page...post-it
No not right now, as in he already had teaser pages up before.
Weeks ago, I cant remember exactly when, he put up an image with a skier and a .pdf file and such that was indicating he had a jailbreak. Thats teaser #1.
Then over a week ago he puts up the image of "its been far too long" with his code comments. Thats teaser #2.
Now he puts up the post it note teaser, teaser #3. I thought it was more an announcement that its about to be up than a teaser that was going to sit there for any significant length of time. Why do it? Again, just on the possibility that he actually doesnt know when he will release yet. He very may well be ready to update any minute. Obviously noone really knows right now.
Have to agree with you, personally I feel he has the Jailbreak ready and he's been drumming up the hype getting everyone talking about over the weekend. It's annoying that he's making us wait for so long but I guess it's up to him if he wants to release it or not. Hopefully it drops within the hour I've had the page on refresh every second since this morning.
That's all fine , but why post such a blatant image on the site which clearly hints at a release soon. He's getting the hopes up of his followers for no reason (assuming he doesn't want to release it). If it's not ready or he doesn't want it out why put such a blatant hint up.. ? That's what people are annoyed about.. At the end of the day it's up to him wether he wants to relaese it's or not.
Have to agree with you, personally I feel he has the Jailbreak ready and he's been drumming up the hype getting everyone talking about over the weekend. It's annoying that he's making us wait for so long but I guess it's up to him if he wants to release it or not. Hopefully it drops within the hour I've had the page on refresh every second since this morning.
I'm as anxious as anyone to see the jailbreak released, but isn't refreshing the jailbreakme website every second or even minute overkill? Once the JB is released, it's already quite possible the site's performance could come to a crawl...why give the site's server(s) even more reason to crash before the real deal is even released?
Lol, the sites servers are perfectly capable of handling it, plus at the moment there is nothing on the site no harm is done.
Lol, the sites servers are perfectly capable of handling it, plus at the moment there is nothing on the site no harm is done.
Just because the site's servers are potentially capable of handling it doesn't mean it's something you should be doing. I'd wager you aren't the only one unnecessarily refreshing every second.... I'm sure there are those who are doing it every half, quarter and tenth second too. DOS attacks are based in overloading a server's ability to handle the traffic. You aren't helping anything and only hurting - even if only to a minute degree. It's all of those combined minute degrees that add up to bigger problems....
This really has almost nothing to do with my post you are replying to. It was about courtesy, not obligation.
Hypothetical courtesy, again it could release any moment. And even if he actively trolled people it obviously wouldn't put much of a dent in his huge contribution to the jailbreak scene, but that doesn't mean its blasphemy to mention it while chatting in a waiting thread.
edit: Though actually, if he is actively accepting donations while teasing a jailbreak release, he does have some obligation to release eventually if its within his ability.
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