Comments on: iPhone the End of Geekyness? http://tapaninaho.com/blog/2007/10/iphone-the-end-of-geekyness/ Kristian Tapaninaho’s place to write and share ideas. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:36:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Kristian Tapaninaho http://tapaninaho.com/blog/2007/10/iphone-the-end-of-geekyness/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Kristian Tapaninaho Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:46:53 +0000 http://tapaninaho.com/blog/2007/10/iphone-the-end-of-geekyness/#comment-206 It's tough to say. It's almost mean letting people use something, even if it wasn't with Apples consent, and then take it away. It'll take a while for 1.1 to be hacked. iPod touch's been out for a month and hasn't been hacked (if I'm not totally wrong) and it didn't take a month for iPhone to be hacked. We'll see. Time left until it's here (yes, it's static, referring to the time this was posted): <img src="http://tapaninaho.com/blog/images/iphone_uk_34d.png" align="centre"> It’s tough to say. It’s almost mean letting people use something, even if it wasn’t with Apples consent, and then take it away. It’ll take a while for 1.1 to be hacked. iPod touch’s been out for a month and hasn’t been hacked (if I’m not totally wrong) and it didn’t take a month for iPhone to be hacked. We’ll see.

Time left until it’s here (yes, it’s static, referring to the time this was posted):

]]> By: alex http://tapaninaho.com/blog/2007/10/iphone-the-end-of-geekyness/comment-page-1/#comment-205 alex Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:59:57 +0000 http://tapaninaho.com/blog/2007/10/iphone-the-end-of-geekyness/#comment-205 you mention that the iphone os is young, i think it's more that that... its actually not complete yet. i mean; the (infamous) 1.1 firmware update actually Changed The Filesystem! this was not a minor point release style bug fix, this was a complete switch of the live functioning filesystem on every iPhone to a Encrypted, signed code system. i can only think that this was intended for 1.0 but simply wasn't ready in time. we can only debate now whether in the long run it was good or bad that this level of filesystem tech wasn't in the 1.0 release ... you mention that the iphone os is young, i think it’s more that that… its actually not complete yet.
i mean; the (infamous) 1.1 firmware update actually Changed The Filesystem!
this was not a minor point release style bug fix, this was a complete switch of the live functioning filesystem on every iPhone to a Encrypted, signed code system. i can only think that this was intended for 1.0 but simply wasn’t ready in time.
we can only debate now whether in the long run it was good or bad that this level of filesystem tech wasn’t in the 1.0 release …

]]> By: JD http://tapaninaho.com/blog/2007/10/iphone-the-end-of-geekyness/comment-page-1/#comment-204 JD Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:36:44 +0000 http://tapaninaho.com/blog/2007/10/iphone-the-end-of-geekyness/#comment-204 aha! aha!

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