Important iPhone terms – Jailbreaking
July 21, 2008 by J.T Dabbagian
Filed under Electronics
Based on a conversation I had with another person about my last few posts on iPhone 24-7, I have this suspicion that one reason the mainstream population doesn’t take full advantage of the iPhone’s power. One of those possible ways involves the process known as Jailbreaking your iPhone.
Jailbreaking means to allow specific programs or websites to hack into your iPhone (In a good way.) It was originally coined due to the idea that Apple initially “jailed” the iPhone by keeping it closed off to third-party developers (and in a way, they still have.) The hack was made in order to allow a program called Installer.app to appear on your iPhone. Installer.app’s purpose is to allow the installation and regulation of Third-party apps.
Right now, there isn’t a public way to Jailbreak 2.0 iPhone firmware, but the iPhone Dev Team has declared victory over the firmware, and says to expect a jailbreaking tool from them soon. Let’s just see what happens.
