This has to be the saddest day in the history of the iPhone. Geohot, the father of the First iPhone Unlock and the first person to ever use the iPhone on a network other than AT&T has announced that he would no longer develop any hacks to jailbreak or unlock on the latest iOS 4.
This comes in an update to Geohot's earlier announcement on his blog which states that the he has managed to jailbreak the iPhone 4 with Limera1n, which was later declared as being fake. He stated that "limera1n is little more than a raindrop on a website" and that users shouldn't expect a release soon. However, after continued criticism it was confirmed by him that he would quit the jailbreaking scene forever. Here are his words:
Sorry, this post was probably a bad idea. Next time I won’t say anything. I miss when this blog was actually about technical things (I’ve been reacting too much to the feedback, which led it to the place it’s in now). I didn’t fully realize most of the current scene don’t care unless they are getting something. Now I do. It’s late tonight, I’ll think about what to do about this in the morning.
The real reason behind no release isn’t technical. It’s just that it will never stop, after blackra1n, people demand unlock, after blacksn0w, people demand untethered. I miss the days when jailbreaking and unlocking were difficult, it attracted a much higher caliber crowd.
Also, to the haters, the picture is quite obviously fake
This leaves us with many questions in mind. Is jailbreaking scene for iPhone secure or will every other iPhone hacker, like Geohot, fail to keep up with the pace and development of the iOS and will eventually give up?
Good for us that we at least have other iPhone hackers like the Dev Team, iH8sn0w and @Comex who are fully active in development of jailbreak and unlock tools for iOS on old iPhone devices as well as the new iPhone 4. On an even sadder note, Geohot has permanently shut down his blog as well as his Twitter account.
[via App Advice]