iPod touch Seriously, why whine, just jailbreak.

[panto]

I paid the 20$ and I think they are totally worth it! I used to have my iPod jailbroken and it started to malfunction I couldn't even play 2 songs before it crashed so I'm glad I'm doing things the right way now.
Besides we are only a few weeks away from the release of the SDK after that it's goodbye to jailbreak and we'll be getting the same apps via iTunes Store and they'll be Apple approved

 

[ntrigue]

1.1.1 is the happy place for the jailbroken iPhone.

1.1.2 just adds unnecessary bulk in international languages.

1.1.3 adds things that have been available for months from Installer.app

 

[anjinha]

When you first tried?? Here, try again, i bet you it will work this time, because after jailbreakme.com was released idk anybody that had a single problem.

And I didn't say theres anything wrong with doing things the right way, I was just saying that often times the "right" way isn't always the most intelligent.

But in the end, you can certainly throw $20 down the drain for 5 apps if you so choose, i on the other hand like to try to make the most out of what I have.

I did try with jailbreakme and it I jailbroke it but I couldn't jailbrake it on 1.1.2, only on 1.1.1.

 

[savar]

Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but it looks like you were wrong after all...

And what's that? Not just one person in that topic bricked theirs, but two!

Most people don't understand what "bricked" means. A "bricked" device is a device that is completely inoperable and completely unrecoverable ... i.e. it can no more play music or show videos than a shiny brick could.

If a device can be fixed [externally], then it is not bricked.

Most bricks occur because the hardware bootstrap method is vulnerable. Say that you design a device where the bootstrap sequence is stored in flash. That device is brickable, because a bad firmware that is missing the bootstrap code would not only fail to turn on the device, it wouldn't be able to reflash itself because it can't even boot up.

A device can also be bricked due to hardware failure. If the CPU burns out, then the device is bricked. Hold an ipt underwater for a minute...now that ipt is bricked.

I'm not convinced that anybody has bricked their ipod. There's no way to know for sure, since we have to take their word that they know what bricked means and they are savvy enough to know whether it's actually bricked or not.

 

[weckart]

Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but it looks like you were wrong after all...

And what's that? Not just one person in that topic bricked theirs, but two!

Did you actually read that thread before quoting? It undermines your argument.

Bricked means you need to take a soldering iron to the hardware to fix. Not that your device OS is buggered. That just needs restoring.

 

[BaldiMac]

wow anybody who would actually pay $20 for 5 apps that you can install yourself, harlmessly, is just not thinking.

Just to clear things up, jailbraking your ipod will not in any way make it into a 'paperweight' as you are claiming, and with all the time these developers are spending on jailbreaking software, i don't know a single person that has had any problem.

plus, why would you settle for ONLY 5 applications, when jailbreaking it gives you infinite.

I would love someone to truly give me a good reason why the $20 upgrade is at all worth it.

-Alex (proud owner of a jailbroken ipod)

There is nothing wrong with jailbreaking itself. If you want the added functionality, go for it. But that has nothing to do with the $20.

The $20 is for the 5 Apple apps. If you install those on the jailbroke iPod without paying for them, then you are stealing them. Stealing isn't "harmless".

So, your "good reason" would be to use the Apple apps legally.

 

[PNW]

1.1.1 is the happy place for the jailbroken iPhone.

1.1.2 just adds unnecessary bulk in international languages.

1.1.3 adds things that have been available for months from Installer.app

Didn't 1.1.2 also fix the calendar editing bug?

Here's the real question will Apple release an ibrick update for the touch or some other attempt to scuttle jailbreaking in the future?
I agree that there's no current risk in jailbreaking now, but my belief that Apple will eventually leave me with the option of not running a security update or restoring and dropping jailbroken apps forever in order to get one is why I ponied up the $20.