iPod Nano Falls Victim to a Springboard Hack!
“Hack the world out guys! Don’t forgive anything running an Apple software.” – That seems to be the motto of the hackers! iPhone Jailbroken, unlocked. iPad, iPod Touch, Apple TV everything pwned. The only thing left with an iOS-like UI was the latest release (6th generation) of iPod Nano. So why leave that? Here comes a hacker called James Whelton to pwn it!
James has managed to skip iPod Nano’s cache comparison which allowed him to remove a default app from the springboard. He is hopeful in getting a bootloader running on it soon. For now look at his hacked Nano:
The iPod Just Turned 9 Years Old (AAPL)
Apple’s iPod just celebrated its ninth birthday.
On Oct. 23, 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a device that promised “1,000 songs in your pocket” for $400.
Since then, the iPod has grown in capacity by more than 25 times, has gotten color touchscreens and camcorders, has become a portable Internet device, and has taken center stage in a mobile gaming revolution.
The iPod could arguably be the most important product in Apple’s entire history. Over the last 9 years, Apple has made the iPod one of the biggest consumer electronics hits of all time, pushing out more than a dozen new models and selling hundreds of millions of units.
Why does Steve Jobs play fast and loose with iPod touch iPod touch numbers?
Apple (AAPL) may in fact be selling more hand-held game devices than Sony and Nintendo combined, as Steve Jobs claimed on Wednesday, but journalists trying to fact-check that statement can be forgiven their skepticism.
Part of the problem is that the statement, on the face of it, is absurd. As of January, Nintendo had sold 125 million DS systems. Sony (SNE), for its part, has sold more than 62 million PSPs. As of last week, according to Jobs, Apple has sold some 120 million iOS devices — a number that covers not just the iPod touch, but tens of millions of iPhones and iPads as well. There’s no way the iPod touch could be considered the world’s most popular portable game player.
For Jobs’ claim to be true he would have to be referring to recent sales. In the last quarter, according to Technologizer, Nintendo sold 3.15 million DS units and Sony 1.2 million PSP units, for a combined total of 4.35 million units.
How many iPod touches did Apple sell? That’s the other problem. Apple has never released an iPod touch sales figure. Ever. The best anyone outside the company can do is make educated guesses, extrapolating from the bits and drabs of data Apple releases from time to time.
Chinese iPod gadget aims to skin Apple
Have you ever wished that your iPod Touch was an iPhone? Now it can be, thanks to a new device called the “Apple Peel 520″ and created by a Chinese company.
Invented by a 22-year-old programmer who lives in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the gadget is comprised of a case that fits around the outside of Apple’s iPod Touch, a popular media player and Wi-Fi-enabled pocket computer with e-mail, maps and other applications.
The Apple Peel 520 case contains a battery, dock connector and SIM card that allows voice calls. Users will also have to install special software to enable a text messaging function, and to allow the device to properly work with the iPod Touch (users will have to break into the software of the iPod in order to download the necessary applications).
Apple Sets Up Cots for Engineers Working ‘Butts Off’ on IPhone
At Apple Inc., “working our butts off” means cots in the engineering department and cars in the parking lot at all hours of the night.
Seeking a solution to the antenna flaw that is dropping calls for some iPhone 4 users, Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said yesterday that employees started a round-the-clock effort to improve the reception amid complaints since the device’s debut on June 24.
“We’ve been working our butts off in the last 22 days to understand what the real issues are here so we can come up with real solutions,” Jobs said at a press conference.
Jobs offered customers free rubber cases that prevent the dropped calls by covering the external antenna on the left-hand corner of the iPhone. That will stop users from gripping it in a way that interferes with reception. He is giving full refunds to buyers who are still dissatisfied.
While just 0.55 percent of users complained, Jobs said the reception glitch is industrywide and Apple wants to be the first to find a solution. Apple, the world’s biggest technology company by market value, will offer free cases until Sept. 30 and then decide whether it has a better solution for the iPhone 4. The iPhone accounts for about 40 percent of revenue and is a bigger moneymaker than the Macintosh or iPod.