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Official iPhone SDK application to work with iPhone v1.1.4 firmware

By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 1:10 PM

iPhone SDK could work with iPhone v1.1.4 firmware[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 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 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.

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Damien Thomas

    :???: This is old news that’s already been proven false by people from TinyCode. Do some research before you right an article, buddy.

  • Matt

    I second the research thing, this was debunked days ago, by TINYCODE!!!

  • bob9

    intomobile is consistently the worst news site ever. nothing is researched or accurate.

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