Well, that didn’t take too long. It feels like we were just talking about the iPhone development community having cooked up a rather complicated jailbreak solution for the iPhone v1.1.3. Unfortunately, the jailbreak method wasn’t ready for prime-time because us mere mortals apparently didn’t have the mental facilities to deal with the jailbreaking minutiae.
Anyway, word on the street has it that the iPhone Dev community has drummed up an end-user-friendly version of the iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak. It seems that the current, easier iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak method is about as complex as the iPhone v1.1.2 jailbreak – which is a good thing. Unfortunately, us iPhone users will have to wait until Apple releases the official iPhone SDK before we get the iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak in our hands.
The reasoning? The iPhone Dev community doesn’t want Apple to patch the jailbreak exploit with the inevitable firmware update that should follow the release of the iPhone SDK. And, we completely agree – it’d be great to have a fully jailbroken iPhone that can support both official iPhone applications and the grass-roots third-party iPhone applications that we’ve become somewhat attached to – a public v1.1.3 jailbreak method could very well mean that Apple will kill the jailbreak solution and lock-down the iPhone for official application-use.
In either case, we can’t wait for official third-party apps to play alongside our Installer.app-sourced third-party applications.
[Via: iPhone Atlas]