Official iPhone SDK application to work with iPhone v1.1.4 firmware
Posted by Will on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 1:10 pm under Rumors, Developer, iPhone, Applications
[Update]
Yeah, ignore this post - it’s BS.
The cat-and-mouse game continues. With every firmware that Apple releases for the iPhone, the iPhone development/hacking community has successfully jailbroken the iPhone filesystem to accept unofficial third-party iPhone applications. And, with every jailbreak, Apple patches the particular exploit with a subsequent iPhone firmware.
So, there was a lot of talk about how the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware would be the firmware version that would work with Apple’s official iPhone SDK-built third-party applications. We really thought that the iPhone v1.1.3 would be the vehicle that brought us iTunes-based (probably) third-party application delivery, and when it was jailbroken, we rejoiced. Well, it’s starting to look like all that jailbreak celebrating was a bit premature.
TinyCode, the people that once brought us unofficial iPhone applications through Installer.app, has announced that it is working with Apple to bring official third-party iPhone applications to the iPhone community. As such, they will no longer be updating its Installer.app application repository. But, the most interesting thing was TinyCode’s focus on “targeting fw 1.1.4 alpha 2″ - leading us to believe that Apple will be using the as-yet unreleased iPhone v1.1.4 firmware to distribute its SDK-based iPhone applications.
We can’t say how fast the new firmware will be jailbroken, but given the iPhone Dev Team’s decision to keep an alternative jailbreak exploit on the backburner for just this sort of happenstance, we sure hope they’ll jailbreak the iPhone v1.1.4 firmware soon after its release. Official and unofficial iPhone apps at the same time - the best of both worlds.
February 20th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Don’t believe the hype - TinyCode was lying.
http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/02/18/iphone-sdk114-leaker-i-was-lying/
February 20th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
February 20th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I second the research thing, this was debunked days ago, by TINYCODE!!!
February 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
intomobile is consistently the worst news site ever. nothing is researched or accurate.
February 20th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Check your story.
delete this story
delete the author..
intomobile.com is now banned on my computers
February 21st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Don’t forget the fact that this SDK will also enable iPod touch devices, which Apple is positioning as the first mainstream Wi-Fi platform, to benefit from these same apps. With 100M iPods sold the potential to convert that market to touch users is HUGE. I have recently blogged about the touch from perspective of user and from developer perspective (in anticipation of SDK). Check out the post if interested:
iPod touch: http://thenetworkgarden.com/weblog/2008/02/ipod-touch-take.html
Cheers,
Mark