Apple shipping iPhone 3GS’ resistant to jailbreaking?

Everyone on here keeps talking about how hopefully the dev-team will still jailbreak it and stick it to apple…blahbidy blah.

Here’s an idea…Stop buying the damn thing or sell the one you currently have and move to android. That will most assuredly stick it to apple, permanently! I can not fathom, for the life of me, how thousands(or is it millions?) of people continue to play this cat and mouse game with apple month in and month out. How can you all not be tired of continuing to hack your phone over and over and over and over again??? Apple is 100% trying to control every iPhone user and yet people still continue to support them because they can hack the thing evertytime an os update hits. The iPhone is NOT thaaaaat good, believe me, I know.

This is all coming from a guy who was in the same boat as most people here. I wised up, sold my iPhone and snatched me a G1. Not 1 day have I regretted that decision and I’ll never look back. And now with so many better Android phones on the horizon, there’s absolutely zero reason not to switch.

F@ck Apple.
F@ck Steve Jobs.

It’s YOUR phone.
You PAID for it.
You should be able to do whatever you want with it.

Steve Jobs was told by his own people that business customers wanted a physical keyboard for the Iphone and said “NO”.

So again….
F@ck Steve Jobs and Apple.

Buy a windows or android phone and do whatever you want with it.

I agree if you buy something you have the right to tweek it. I have the right to remove all firewalls etc from my PC I do so at my own risk. If I try this on my business PC I do this at the risk of my job. As to my previous post about Iphone in the enterprise , security is for stopping people from risking company data and doing things they are not allowed to do.

I AGREE THIS IS TOTAL BULLSHIT…. I HOPE SOMEONE CRACKS THIS PHONE THAT WOULD BE EQUIVILENT TO DRINKING THE KOOLAID THAT JIM JONES HAD HIS FOLLOWERS DRINK

Very well said….I guess there’s too many loyal apple fanboys. The dev team are definitely fan boys….iphone is crap!!! period…wise up people…

I don’t really need to jailbreak my iphone so this doesn’t really affect me. I like apple products but open for other things as well. Love the new Nokia Maemo5 on the N900. The apps on the Iphone really suits me right now especially with all the medical apps that pertains to my work. I like the Iphone. People continually bash it because its practically everywhere and popular. I’ll see what Apple has to offer next year, or might go back to Nokia again… we’ll see. I do agree that owners should be able to do anything to their phone. Bottomline, its all business and making money.

The majority of iPhone buyers (housewives, teenage girls, soccer dads) aren’t going to give a flying fuck whether the phone can be hacked or not. The few techies who stop buying iPhones because of the lack of jailbreaking abilities will make no difference to the Apple empire.

Not yet but the “HTC Leo” is just around the corner.

I had an iphone …then I wised up and left the hype… I went over to sprint and have never looked back…sure I don’t have 1 billion apps but meh… I’ll survive..

people still buy iphones…..??

I’m been a professional software developer for over 14 years skilled in Java, C#, C++, C, etc on Unix and Windows. *I* don’t care if I can jailbreak it. Why?

I would love certain features like folders(hello Apple!! Do this!!) or being able to properly use my Google Voice account, but I expect a certain amount of stability in my phone that I’m unwilling to compromise on. If I need to make or receive a call in an emergency I don’t want to risk a problem because of a jailbreak. I’m not saying that there would be a problem. But the risk is higher than a non-jailbroken phone.

It sucks. They should open it up, but I find the iPhone, today the best hardware/software/content mobile platform on the market. Even with the current limitations. I hope the other vendors step it up. I’m not married to the thing and competition is great!

Ok lol this is so funny. Are you guys serious bitching at apple?
first of all we all know that 75% of jailbreakers also install installous so they can “TEST” apps (lol). Apple is fighting against piracy i don’t think they care to much about themes and apps that change the carrier name.

i have had a iphone for 2 years. i got the 3gs the day it was released i have about 40 apps i am currently “TESTING” which i installed from installous. 40 apps at 5$ a app means 200$ apple didn’t get. is it right? no its not only normal they try to stop it. The real issue is piracy not anything else. it is only normal apple who tries to give customers a great final product control what goes into an iphone. If you people think android is so much better go try it….you will be disappointed. i had a n95 before my iphone and allthough i could do anything to it in terms of mods almost anyhting that went into it was shitty because there was no quality control.

the iphone is an awsome phone , gadget and if i cant jailbreak anynore it would be shitty but i cant blame apple and if they manage to keep us from jailbreaking ill still keep my iphone and buy 10 apps instead of having 40. the ps3 isnt hacked yet i still have one its great product bottom line dont be hypocrites because apple doesnt need you to be succesfull

@Carmen

i think most peoples point is yeah ok its a at and mouse game, but why does it have to be? it isn’t like that for RIM, PALM, WINMO, or NOKIA. Apple can’t keep their device closed for much longer, theres simply way better phones/smartphones here, and on the way. i love apple, i had 2 iphones, ended up selling and going with RIM and haven’t looked back. i multiple apple products, i just think on the phone front, they have failed horrendously, its a toy compared to other phones, nobody that takes functionality seriously considers this device to be of substance.

Nothing is impossible’ to crack…
I don’t know why this is so hard to understand..

Well I dont uindwerstand all tis hype against apple trying to secure the iphone. NIt that I dont hack it myself .. but unless you have bought a phione that was not subsidised by AT&T, then yiou dont “own” your phone really till your contract is up. that means they can limit you as much as you want to legally… now afterwards that may be a different story.

@Kirk. You said it best. Apple doesn’t care about the small crowd this this is going to affect.

if at&t doesn’t bring android to its custies soon, what to do? is there an andoid phone, or one on the horizon, that can be made to work w/ at&t?

got the wife an iPhone, and got fambly plan, so am locked in for some time. help?

Its all well and good that you want to jailbreak your phones because its cool to customize it, but look at it from Apple’s perspective. If they want to get into the business world it is important for them to crack down on this because businesses will not support something that is not secure enough to protect their sensitive data.

Apple is trying to move the iPhone to cover both the home and business world. So far they are failing.

Funny how the droid OS looks awfully similar to the iphone…yea real innovative

seriously though its just a phone…if you wanna get geeky with it just buy a computer.

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According to http://dotdoh.com/?p=518 a new exploit may already be ready.

Ipod and especially Itune and appstore are apple money machines, jailbreaking does danger this, there’s the reason, yes, they hate it and do fight against jb all means possible.