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What are your opinions on what GeoHot has done?
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While I don't deny he's a drama queen driven by glory, who the hell are you to be mad at him? He jailbroke his own device (the actual way (first time I did it there was like 72 command line steps, and that was actually the short version)).
Do you expect him to now write and test his own program to do it automatically just because he did us a favor once before? Come on.
Maybe he thought he had it broken, and started bragging too soon. And realized that there was a problem or Apple was able to close the hole that he used to jailbreak it.
Or maybe Apple came knocking at his door and had him arrested, and he is sitting in Jail right now.
Arrest him for what? Jailbreaking an iphone its not illegal.
Unbelibably when blackrain was working, there were people demanding a unthreated or threated (don't remember wich), solution. He was very annoyed with the amount of messages from people demanding and getting mad at him for not releasing said solution and that is when he started to fed up.
He didn't actually jailbreak the iPhone 4. It was a fake picture to get people like you all jacked up.
Apparently, it worked.
Ye, I thought he said it was fake.
Not a wise move for sure.
But besides his weird behavior he is good at what he does.
If he wasnt such an ass about it all it wouldnt be an issue. The dev team is very good at handling the situation, they dont talk about things they have completed and then never have any plans for releasing them...
there is a reason why this twitter account was created
http://twitter.com/egohot
Doesn't matter, I already made a thread about his leave and it turned into a disaster.
He's done.
Gone.
Through.
I dont know why we're still on this subject.
If he comes back with something, cool.
If not, he stuck to his word this time.
But at least we know there are people still working on it for us, and thats all we can ask at this point.
about geohot i think he did a very good job in the jailbreaking scene but sometimes he was an ass by leaking the hacks like the ps3 and the iphone 4 and then not releasing them sorry if im wrong
He didn't actually jailbreak the iPhone 4. It was a fake picture to get people like you all jacked up.
Apparently, it worked.
Exactly ! Seems it worked on OP anyway.
Everyone mentions the (lack of) PS3 hack. He DID release the tools for the exploit to the community. He never said he'd develop for it all by himself, that would be a huge amount of work.
As for the iPhone 4 jailbreak did you expect him to release it next day? The journey from proof of concept to stable release code is a long one, and there would have been no point as the dev team has found an exploit already.
Happy trails dude
Blackra1n provided me an easy, reliable JB solution (I know not the case for everyone), so I'm very grateful to the young tyro.
As for highly talented people in the limelight becoming prima donnas who act unpredictably and apparently irrationally? No! I'm shocked
Blackra1n provided me an easy, reliable JB solution (I know not the case for everyone), so I'm very grateful to the young tyro.
As for highly talented people in the limelight becoming prima donnas who act unpredictably and apparently irrationally? No! I'm shocked
I cured my own cancer, am I an ass for not giving the cure to everyone else?
YES. Don't post your videos of your jailbroken iPhone 4, rub it in our faces and then quit the iPhone hacking scene without releasing whatever you used to do it.
ITS A DICK MOVE.
It was fake - he didn't JB it. He's young and maybe like a freshman in college... almost everyone I knew at that age was a dick.
Not to take away from your point, because I agree with you. I'm just ready to move on without him, but wish him the best.