I waited to jailbreak my original iPhone until I got my new 3GS. I wonder why that is?
Should we automatically believe the author of the post that he didn't try overclocking the CPU while tinkering with it? That the jailbreak didn't exploit a hole in a power management routine which ended up with a nasty side effect?
I'm sorry people, but I have to agree with Apple/Motorola and the corporate types on this. Software can impact the hardware, so yes indeed tinkering with the software can void the warranty of the hardware.
Most desktops would be hard-pressed to cook themselves through a software/firmware hack unless significantly (stupidly) overclocked. In contrast, lots of mobile devices could cook themselves with such hacks even without any overclocking.
There's also a significant difference between firmware and just installing software. The PC manufacturer and MS expect you to install any old software on that windows boxen. Apple did not manufacture the iPad with that expectation, and they were up-front about this.
If you want a hackable tablet, there have been plenty of options around since 2001! I know, because I have one!
The only thing you could do is run a process at high CPU load for a long time, and you can do that in the App Store by plugging the device in and letting it sit there with a game running.
Please note that the iPad jailbreak (unlike the ones used on iPhones) does not actually modify the bootloader and only has minimal kernel access (changing things that, frankly, would make it use less CPU load as it no longer validates signature certificates on binary code it is loading).
(Also, there have been plenty of options since long before 2001, and I know because I have those ;P. Check out the Compaq Concerto running Windows 3.11 for Pen. Frankly, I wouldn't call the iPad a tablet, and neither does Apple: pens are a defining characteristic.)
- Jay Freeman (saurik)
[on the various jailbreak teams, developer of Cydia]
There's also Android tablets aplenty in the works. Thank you very much for your work on Cydia, I am a delighted user of it on my 1st gen iPhone.
The old tc1100 supports basically 90% of the use cases for my iPad, but the iPad is just more comfortable to use, particularly since it lacks the stylus. (With the one exception of drawing.)
Also, just because the jailbreak itself doesn't cause more CPU use, this doesn't mean that the jailbreak couldn't enable something thermally harmful. It's also not reasonable for Apple to have to determine forensically that you didn't harm anything -- it's impossible to prove a negative! Now, if someone was playing a game on an non-jailbroken device plugged into the charger and fried it, they would be entitled to satisfaction from Apple since they were running it on the terms Apple sold it. If you don't like these, either don't buy the device or take the risk of not having the warranty to fall back on. The similar physics of these two situations isn't the issue here, it's all about the legal terms of the sale.
Do you understand that this is related not just to how you hold the phone, but where you are and what reception you are getting. There are plenty of people (most?) that can not produce this on the iphones either.
I wasn't attempting to insinuate that all iPhone 4G's are easy to trigger this in, but I wanted to defend Blackberry from the unfair attack by Apple. I have had a few Blackberries and none have ever had any noticeable hand position related signal loss across a variety of signal strength and location environments.
How is this an unfair attack? It is not an attack at all, it is simple physics. All phones have this problem, the media are focusing on just one phone, because it is more newsworthy. Apple are saying it is a problem with most phones out there, the iPhone is no different. You really see that as an attack.
The point is the single data point you are providing. Finding iPhone 4 users with this same data point of not having a problem point to the fact the you entirely missed the point.
This video is out of date and should not be referenced.
Mainly, the cross compile approach he is mentioning is now not permitted under the "Flash Fix" in the developer agreement that Apple came up with, which requires apps to be written using only native tools.
What's funny, at least I think, is that Apple used to support Cocoa Java which looked very much like the java implementation being shown in the example.
I'll save you 90 min of your time. Instead send me two dollars and I'll tell you the secret is to put up a web site that convinces people to drop money on some video you probably stole from somewhere else. Oops, just gave it away without collecting the two bucks.
The study was interesting, yet by the author's own words incomplete with only something like 24 participants. Even then, I wasn't clear if each of the 24 read three different stories, one per device, or how the breakdown went.
Also, a sensationalist headline to attract hits, the comparison was among paper, the Kindle and the iPad. Why not "Reading on paper is faster than reading on iPad or Kindle"?
Finally, while the whole study was pretty pointless, reading on the iPad was slightly better than reading on the Kindle but within the margin or error.
I was just going to comment on that very same thing. The guy is only a day into the job, so what does he know, but didn't offer anything that would lead one to conclude they Nokia is changing anything. He didn't address the problems brought up by symbian-guru at all.
Interesting information as always from useit. However, the conclusion of the test, which was that there wasn't a conclusion was chuckle inducing. Too bad they didn't throw the Kindle iPad app into the mix.
Who cares if the product is hyped or not. Who cares if the guy next door already has one.
I don't use google for search because everyone else does, I use it because it works for me. If I start to find that Bing works better, I'll switch to that. Who cares if everyone else is using google or not.
Saying you don't want to use an iPhone because it's too locked up makes sense, even though I don't agree with that position. Saying you don't want to use an iPhone because of hype and fashion, that's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Should we automatically believe the author of the post that he didn't try overclocking the CPU while tinkering with it? That the jailbreak didn't exploit a hole in a power management routine which ended up with a nasty side effect?
I'm sorry people, but I have to agree with Apple/Motorola and the corporate types on this. Software can impact the hardware, so yes indeed tinkering with the software can void the warranty of the hardware.