Chapter 12. Hack the iPhone
As this book was being completed, the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) was released. In the future, the iPhone will have applications by third-party developers, so owners will have plenty of choices of games, business applications, blogging tools, and more. The existence of third-party applications won’t mean that jailbreaking your phone will be useless, Apple is planning on exerting a fair amount of control over just what applications will be available. So there will very likely be good reasons to hack your iPhone in the future.
HACK 99: Jailbreak Your iPhone
Your iPhone is capable of much more than Apple intended you to know about. For those who dare unlock it, some very interesting things are possible.
There is a lot of buzz out there about hacking the iPhone to make it do things Apple didn’t anticipate.
Warning
Hacking an iPhone is a daunting task and one that, for many, should probably be avoided. Apple, at this writing, has released an iPhone Software Development Kit that allows third-party applications to run on the Mac OS X-based handset. This will open up the platform, for sure, but not as far as hacking it can. It is important to proceed with caution when using these hacks. If you don’t understand what you are doing, it might be best to skip this hack. Although some of these hacks can be wiped out with a mere software restore, problems can arise ...
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