The politics of iPhone jailbreaking
A few months ago, someone tweeted about an AI founder’s LinkedIn account; it belonged to George “geohot” Hotz, who in 2007 became the first person to remove the SIM lock on an iPhone. The name, which apparently didn’t ring a bell to most, reminded me to write my own tribute to the lost art of iOS jailbreaking. Pledge your support P.S. Bay Area readers—don’t forget to get your tickets for Reboot Community Day! By Tianyu Fang At the age of ten, I received my first Apple device: a second-generation iPod Touch. In numbers that don’t mean anything anymore, it’d come with the iOS version 3.1.3, and the latest firmware it could upgrade to was iOS 4.2.1. It didn’t have a camera, you couldn’t set custom wallpapers for the Home Screen, there was no Notification Center or a remotely functional filesystem, and multitasking between apps had only recently been made possible. I was in elementary school back then, and I was desperately hoping to do more with my iPod. I’d seen screenshots of iOS with c
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