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TOTA - APPLE iPHONE & iPAD & Mobile News Thread PT1 (CLOSED) (pg. 193)
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| Stilez |
Apple Sits on the Steering Committee of the Police Force That Raided Gizmodo
| quote: | Apple sits on the steering committee of the police task force that raided the home of Gizmodo's Jason Chen, according to Yahoo News.
The article questions what role Apple played in the seizure of computers and servers using a possibly illegal warrant.
The San Mateo District Attorney's office, told Yahoo! News that the search warrant on Chen's home was executed by members of the REACT Task Force in the course of investigating a "possible theft," but he didn't say whether the target was Gizmodo or the anonymous tipster who found the phone. In either case, it's hard to imagine — even if you grant that a theft may have occurred under California law, which requires people who come across lost items to make a good-faith effort to return them to their owner — how the loss of a single phone in a bar merits the involvement of an elite task force of local, state, and federal authorities devoted to "reducing the incidence of high technology crime through the apprehension of the professional organizers of large-scale criminal activities," as the REACT website motto characterizes its mission.
Chief Deputy at San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office, Stephen Wagstaffe said, "It depends, If there's something unusual about the phone, then yes, REACT would get involved. It deals with anything that's high-tech. So if it's hard to put a value on it — for instance, if it's not just any cell phone — then a local police force might have trouble assessing its value, and the task force would have the expertise to do that."
Yahoo News asked the REACT spokeswoman to confirm Apple's presence on the committee and to explain what, precisely, the committee does and how it relates to the task force's law enforcement efforts. She didn't get back to them.
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| E2EK1EL |
Facebook video goes iPhone and iPad compatible with HTML5
Speaking of Facebook, it looks like they’ve joined the growing list of sites that are now providing HTML5 video for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad compatible playback.
That list now includes YouTube and Vimeo, TED, Brightcove-powered sites such as New York Times and Time Magazine, CBS.com (in trial form),
Good news for us and for Apple, not great news for Adobe on the video front, as yet another reason for needing Flash bites the dust.
And boy does Hulu look like last-mover these days…
(Just tested it, has to be through Safari and in full mode)
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| E2EK1EL |
Apple WWDC will be June 7th
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| Anton |
So yesterday I was on a boring road trip and my iphone crashed on me. Being jailbroken I had to wait until I got home to restart the thing. This is only the second time the iPhone has crashed, but both those times were when I was far away from a computer. When I got home I decided to go legit and upgrade to 3.1.3. Just incase anyone was wondering how it compares to a jailbroken phone I've noticed a few things.
- The default theme is ugly as hell, with the huge icons
- Not having categories, infinidock, or 5-column springboard makes it really a pain in the ass to find the app you are looking for
- I really really miss Quick Reply SMS, you never really appreciate how great that program is until it's gone.
- I also really miss the Matte UI and Grey SMS balloons, I forgot how ugly those blue pop-ups are.
- I don't notice a difference in battery life, it still drains fairly fast (I am with Bell and have to keep my 3G on all the time)
- Programs feel the slightest bit snappier, probably because all that extra stuff isn't running.
- I don't notice any difference between 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 as far as battery reporting goes, its all the same.
- It's nice to be able to install InstaPaper Pro which requires 3.1.3 for some stupid reason.
All in all I don't NEED the device to be jailbroken but I'm waiting patiently for an untethered jailbreak. |
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| Anton |
| quote: | | Comex has announced that tomorrow he will be releasing his Spirit jailbreak for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. |
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=9161
Looks like a new jailbreak is coming tomorrow, good timing for me.. didn't have to wait too long! |
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| E2EK1EL |
Steve Jobs posts “Thoughts on Flash”: why you’ll never see Flash on iPhone or iPad
Steve Jobs has posted his “Thoughts on Flash” up on Apple.com, and like his previous thoughts on (DRM) music, it’s a fascinating insight into the mind and tactics of Apple’s CEO. As background, this follows up iPhone, iPod touch, and now iPad shipping without Flash support, Apple’s recent change in license to prevent the use of cross-compilers like Adobe Flash CS5’s Packager for iPhone (which let developers make Flash apps and output iPhone apps), and Apple’s recent addition of Mac APIs to allow hardware accelerated Flash on the desktop.
Jobs begins by stating how close Apple and Adobe were and how they’ve drifted apart. He then breaks down his case against Flash on mobile into 6 key areas:
Flash is not open, it’s wholly owned and controlled by Adobe. While Apple also has proprietary products, they believe the web should be open, and Jobs singles out Apple’s support of WebKit (the rendering engine behind Safari, Chrome, etc.) as an example of this in action.
Flash is not needed for the “full web” because H.264 is becoming the standard and as sites update to support H.264 they automatically provide video supported by the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. He lists Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic as examples. Jobs also says Flash games aren’t needed because the App Store has 50,000 games, more than any other platform in the world, and many of them free.
Security and performance. Flash is increasingly an attack vector for malware, and Apple still claims it’s the number one cause of crashes on the Mac.
In addition, Flash has not performed well on mobile devices. We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it. Adobe publicly said that Flash would ship on a smartphone in early 2009, then the second half of 2009, then the first half of 2010, and now they say the second half of 2010. We think it will eventually ship, but we’re glad we didn’t hold our breath. Who knows how it will perform?
Battery life, Jobs claims, would take a significant hit with Flash support. Since H.264 content already runs on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad natively and with full hardware decoding, that only leaves the older codecs for Flash, and these would require the much more “expensive” software decoding.
The move to multitouch is not supported by a mouse pointer-centric Flash sites that use rollovers and other desktop behaviors and since these will need to be re-written anyway, Jobs believes they might as well be re-written in open HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript formats.
Most importantly, Jobs says Apple doesn’t want 3rd party cross-compilers sitting between developers and the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor’s platforms.
Flash is a cross platform development tool. It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross platform apps. And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms. For example, although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5. Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X.
(Insert your Final Cut Pro jokes here).
Jobs ends with his characteristic “boom”:
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
After his “thoughts on music”, we slowly saw DRM get dropped and iTunes music go “free”. Will Jobs’ “thoughts on Flash” cause a similar evolution of the open web? |
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| E2EK1EL |
I just read about this ... who knows whats gonna happen. Some dudes are saying it's gonna be delayed maybe.
OEM FW is very limited indeed, it's refreshing to go OEM once in a while ... but it doesn't last. Let's see what happens and the result of this JB effecting future bootroms and etc. |
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| E2EK1EL |
Calm before the Spirit storm
At some point after (don’t ask when!) the iPad 3G is actually in customers’ hands, the first “userland” jailbreak since firmware 1.x will be released by @comex. It’s called “Spirit” and was first demonstrated working on an iPad by @MuscleNerd within 24 hours of the iPad’s release on April 3.
Userland jailbreaks are more troublesome for Apple since they expose security weaknesses that exist even for non-jailbroken owners. As such, Apple is likely to close them soon after they’re made public. One recent example of this is the SMS vulnerability exposed at Blackhat last summer. Apple released new firmware to close that hole within a day.
The Spirit jailbreak is most useful for newer devices: iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3G, and the iPads. Unfortunately those devices are the same ones that Apple can prevent you from downgrading unless you’ve got a backup of your personalized SHSH blobs. Unless you’ve backed up your SHSH blobs for vulnerable firmware versions, you’ll lose the ability to use the current Spirit jailbreak if you accidentally upgrade.
Please take the steps now to backup your SHSH blobs. Use either Firmware Umbrella to create a local copy, or go through saurik’s server. If you are getting an iPad 3G, it’s safest to backup your blobs using Firmware Umbrella, in case saurik’s server gets bogged down with requests.
Other things about Spirit that are useful to know:
* Spirit is an untethered jailbreak.
* Spirit works on all devices. (However, the redsn0w and PwnageTool flows will continue to work on those devices they’ve always worked on)
* Spirit does not include a carrier unlock. (Please don’t bug @comex about that)
* Spirit requires your device to be activated or hacktivated
Please make sure you have your SHSH blobs backed up! While @comex has indicated he’s not going to release the very minute the iPad 3G is out, there’s no telling what Apple might do anyway. |
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| Playa24_7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by E2EK1EL
Holly smokes where you've been hiding for the past six months dude? :)
Regarding the shape, that's most likely it :( Huge artical posted on TiPB about all recent Apple product using that shape, such as MacBook Pro, LCD & iPad of course. |
Haha, I've just been staying local, not going to Toronto much, and because of that I haven't been on here much I guess lol. I forgot about this thread though and just saw it when I randomly went on, so I had to post in it haha. |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by E2EK1EL
Apple WWDC will be June 7th
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probably gonna eat my words on everything i've said about iphones over the years and succumb to the pressure |
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