Sunday, jailbreak for the iPhone 4 happened. The hack liberates iPhone 4 owners from the shackles of the Apple App Store. Unapproved apps could be downloaded with the iPhone 4 jailbreak. One think jailbreaking does that people really like right now is the ability to use other networks besides AT and T. Apple, which exercises tight control over the iPhone network and iPhone app approval process, says jailbreaking the iPhone 4 “can severely degrade the experience”.
Finding the iPhone jailbreak
Less than a week after copyright officials in the U.S. ruled that jailbreaking the iPhone 4 is legal, a developer has released an app intended to do it. The iPhone 4 jailbreak is at jailbreakme.com for those who want it. The hack for the iPhone 4 jailbreak means the Apple App Store is not the only place individuals can download apps from anymore. The jailbreak could be received using an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with the Safari browser. This jailbreak is special since you can download it straight onto your iPhone rather than going to your computer first.
Apple not thrilled about legal jailbreaking
The practice of jailbreaking was illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits the circumvention of copy protection mechanisms. Information week reports the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC) opened the door to legal download of the iPhone jailbreak last week when it said hacking the iPhone to circumvent Apple’s app approval process doesn’t violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. LOC’s chief librarian wrote that cracking the iPhone is “innocuous at worst and beneficial at best.” Apple strenuously disagreed. The company issued a statement in which it said that, when it may be technically legal, jailbreaking the iPhone will void the device’s warranty.
Jailbreak makes iPhone/T-Mobile connection possible
The iPhone 4 jailbreak was so popular that jailbreakme.com could hardly stay online Sunday. The CNN article said once an iPhone has been jailbroken, an additional set of apps can be used to unlock an iPhone to work on wireless networks other than AT and T, which is the only official U.S. carrier for the iPhone. Unlocked iPhones will work only on T-Mobile and not Sprint or Verizon because of the way it works.
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