iOS 5 Jailbroken 135
Mightee writes "MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team has posted some pictures on his twitter account, confirming the jailbreak works fine on iOS 5, but of course it is limited to tethered boot only, which means you will have to connect it to your computer on every reboot. According to his initial testing, Cydia appears to be working just fine on his jailbroken 4th-gen iPod touch; he managed to install an SSHing utility app called iSSH successfully, which can be seen in one of the screenshots below."
It blows my mind (Score:3, Interesting)
That people would put up with having to jump through so many hoops just to have a jailbroken iPhone.
Don't get me wrong; I like Apple products. But Apple seems to go to such lengths to prevent the end user from using the phone in the way they want it just boggles my mind that so many supposed geeks here on /. still want to be part of that experience.
Personally I'm on WebOS. While it's a miniscule platform compared to iOS, "jailbreaking" it isn't even necessary. Just punch in the konami code and you are in developer mode, instantly enabling the ability to load up thousands of homebrew apps, themes, patches and mods.
Even my non-techie father had it figured out in minutes once I showed him how. I can't imagine trying to explain having to tether your phone JUST TO BOOT IT after jailbreaking.
I guess I'm spoiled.