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[Ilya R.]

Apple has been going through some weird times lately, starting with Macworld this year, which Apple retreated from.
Phil Schiller gave the keynote and introduced some new stuff, including iLife and iWork '09.
Also, Steve Jobs announced his temporary leave from Apple to focus on his current health problems. He is planning to return in the summer.

As recently announced on the Apple website, the app store has reached over 500 million app downloads, and is on track for a billion at a steadily increasing rate of app store usage.

Coming from the jailbreaking side of the scene, the iPhone Dev Team has released their unlock for the iPhone 3G, called "yellowsn0w" and are currently developing the jailbreak for the 2nd generation iPod touch, codenamed "redsn0w". With the release of the jailbreak, the thousands of owners of the iPT2G will be able to open their device and allow in a world of possibilities as can be done right now with the iPhones and the first iTouch. The 3G unlock as also proved successful among its users, and people all over the world are using with their native cell carriers successfully.

With these new developments, what's next for Apple?

[MaiAndy]

Not the MacBook Wheel that's for sure. =P

[Ilya R.]

Haha that's epic win.

[leo2car]

The Apple wheel will be an incredible fail. I dont want my typing or entering text to take an hour per sentence. It will take 3 seconds to enter a letter when people can take a few short words in a second. Its cool, but useless and a waste.

[MaiAndy]

It's fake lol. The Onion is fake news. Plus it looks really ugly to have a huge iPod wheel in the middle of your laptop.

[azntechguy]

The I-rack and the I-ran? Both looked pretty unstable to me

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[©Milton]

My Middle School just got new MacBooks. Really tight at the moment.

[Ilya R.]

Tech's full of both PCs and Macs, but leaning towards the PC side.
I've seen room-fulls of macs but not that many.

[Wilson]

lol, i know how to make yellow snow but red snow will be painful. And i have recently unlocked my iphone 3g using yell0wsnow and also jail breaked it. Do you know any cool things you could do with my iphone now that it is jailbroken. DO NOT SAY DOWNLOAD 3RD PARTY APPS!!!

[Ilya R.]

Well you said it already, but the file system's unlocked so you can do whatever those 3rd party apps allow.

And it's true that redsn0w is really complex, a tethered jailbreak was released followed by a semi-tethered jailbreak. The iTouch 2G was really forcefully hardware modified by Apple to patch up exploits. The dev team is looking through the iTouch's bootrom right now to find another low-level exploit. It's just the fact that it performs tons of signature checks on the firmware and boot programs and it's hard to find a software exploit to bypass those since they're at such a low level. This is why you have to patch the iTouch when you reboot, since you need to manually insert the patch after one signature check is failed.

[Wilson]

When i said redsnow is painful i was talking in real life. You get yellow snow by peeing in snow, then red snow would be painful. Thats what i meant. Is it possible to get a psp and nds emulater on the iphone, i seen my friends with them. nds emulater should work good on iphone since they both use touch screen.

[banapopy]

I'm not a HUGE fan of mac but I think when I move out for college I would want a macbook to do work on, simply because its more stable and more work-oriented. It sucks that its so damn expensive though.

There's no such thing as a psp or ds emulator for iphone..

[azntechguy]

banapopy, on Feb 12 2009, 10:39 PM, said:

I'm not a HUGE fan of mac but I think when I move out for college I would want a macbook to do work on, simply because its more stable and more work-oriented. It sucks that its so damn expensive though.

There's no such thing as a psp or ds emulator for iphone..

You would want a Macbook strictly for its design and/or tech support. Failing that, you want a Macbook because every other schmuck on campus has one.

Not because it's more stable and more work oriented. That's a marketing myth (and a very successful one at that). My Windows setup is quite stable, well-maintained and conducive for work (though I've seen better). Also helps that my non-descript Toshiba laptop has a layout that's also conducive for work.

[banapopy]

I can make several arguments about that. I agree with the design though. Tech support, I don't really care much for.
Macs are excellent at photography and video editing. Photoshop is easier to use on it as well. It's not really a myth. There's way more viruses that infect PCs rather than Macs. Plus, since there's less games compatible with the Mac, you can spend less time procrastinating! Haha.
Besides, Vista sucks.

[Ilya R.]

I made a blog post about the iTouch 2G jailbreak.

http://www.unoquadiu.../15/apple-rant/

I'm really hoping the dev team figures something out soon.

[NickC]

Wilson, on Feb 12 2009, 09:06 PM, said:

Do you know any cool things you could do with my iphone now that it is jailbroken. DO NOT SAY DOWNLOAD 3RD PARTY APPS!!!

Of course... like sell it to me at a really low price since I'm a T-mobile user and I can't get one at the moment lol

[Wilson]

NickC, on Feb 15 2009, 12:40 PM, said:

Of course... like sell it to me at a really low price since I'm a T-mobile user and I can't get one at the moment lol

Go to Chinatown, there are many cell phone stores that wud sell you an iphone unlocked for u without a contract needed.

[NickC]

How much how much? =)