So Who Is Hacking Their iPhone
From the looks of things there a fair amount of development going on (C4, etc.) using jailbreak and the other hacking libraries, but how many users are going taking the leap? I don’t know about the rest of you, but I can’t really bare the thought of hacking my phone and being left with a shiny brick…just doesn’t seem like the pay-off is worth it. Frankly I’m a little self-centered in my view of the world, I’d prefer people stick with web-based apps for the device rather than continuing down the path of native apps. It’s better for me A) because it’s something I can and have been developing for seeing as how I’m not a cocoa developer and B) it’s a win-win to develop web-based apps - if it’s a compelling idea, done well it can serve an audience larger than the iPhone, why not appeal to a broader audience.
So here’s the question…Are you hacking your iPhone? What super-fantastic app, if any, would compel you to hack? Join in the fray, leave a comment.
There are a host of improvements I’d love to see on the device, but I’m content to wait out Apple and see what they deliver, rather than hack and drop in native apps.
If I had one, I’d hack it to get an ssh client and to do bluetooth tether. However, the lack of the latter is why I don’t have one yet.
I haven’t done anything to mine yet; kind of waiting to see how the first official update is handled before I mangle it much.
Dave, thanks for stopping by! I’m with you, I have to at least wait for the first major bump before going down the hack path.
[...] Not everyone is hacking their iPhone. When it comes to taking the plunge, it seems likely that most people have chosen to avoid the risk or are waiting for better tools. Jeremy Harrington wonders who out there is hacking and who isn’t. [...]