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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The People Crazy Enough to Think They Can Change the World Are the Ones Who Do. (Until We Change It Back With iPhone 1.1.2.)

The sputtering outrage over the firmware update that disabled third-party iPhone applications and bricked iPhones uncoupled from AT&T’s network became a cry of victory yesterday when the iPhone dev community said it had found a way to again implement third-party applications on the device.
According to Engadget, the iPhone Dev Team, an unofficial group of programmers [...]

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Friday, September 28, 2007

iBricked

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iBrokeIt (Updated)

Turns out “irreparable damage” was a fairly apt description for what Apple’s latest iPhone firmware update does to modified or unlocked iPhones. Issued yesterday afternoon, iPhone 1.1.1 update does indeed play havoc with modified iPhones, particularly those that have been hacked to work on non-AT&T networks. It wipes out all unsupported third-party applications and [...]

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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