State of the iTouch Jailbreak: Slow, forward progress

Can the Itouch be hacked to play divx? or Watch divx content through Safari? I think it would be pretty awesome if it could....

yer go hackers o and by the way what do i call mine i type ipot yer thats short but thats what the foums i part of all call it its not a big forum only about 3k people but thats just what we call it if we no what were going on about then thats good enuf

just a fun note

I have been reading alot about the touch and the iphone since i have aquired both recently and I am very surprised not to of read any body mention the fact that the google hacks to search for music work wonderfully. I have used them in the car while driving and just pick a song from a parent directory i want. One at a time noless but still a very useful bit of info for you all. I havent messed around with google codes in a year or so but realized the other day that it should work and by golly it does. on the edge network it Dl in about 10 seconds.

I'm looking forward to getting an iPod touch and, maybe even applying some hacks when they're ready. I say "when" not "if" because I know it's going to happen, and it'll probably be soon.

To the commenter who wanted a definition of "jailbreak" -- the whole point of the web is having information cross-referenced and at your fingertips. Scroll up a bit, click on the keyword jailbreak and you'll get a good definition. It's a forehead-slapper once you know what it is and think about it. A tech term that actually makes sense! Imagine that!

Bluetooth works on itouch?

http://www.hacktheipodtouch.com/unlock/ipod-touch/bluetooth-on-the-touch-sort-of

Something that should be verified maybe?

byaah, same could be said about comments. If you don't like the comment, ignore it.

I love TUAW and I will continue reading it. Just because I make a comment on one post doesn't mean I'm bashing everyone. I have the right to have an opinion, and doesn't have to be the same as others' opinions.

I ordered my "iTouch" at a "Mac Store".

blasphemy?

Hello Erica! Thank you guys (and girls?) for working on this sooo much! it means the world to me that someone is trying this hard for the good of other! WE ARE THANKFULL! YOU GUYS ARE LEGENDS!!!!!

First off, big thank you Erica and all the wonderful developers hackers for your refreshing efforts to give more value and worth to the consumers/users. It is very much in the spirit of Woz. Tinker On!

I've been on the fence with getting the touch vs iPhone vs Classic. (waiting for the touch jailbreak) I just want vi and local file storage or heck data entry! like the Nokia N800 to enter notes or calendar entries. But who wants to lug a big N800, I already tote a capable Palm TX.

It's been very exciting following these breaking news threads and updates and even made me start dl'ing TUAW podcast on my wife's 3G Nano Fatty which I bought for her to 'test the waters' :-)
Open Source is the here to stay and growing. Apple is smart to recognize that wave to some extent; I only hope they would be more generous to us users as they drift in this new mobile space.
That said
#32 Don raises a good point. Apple the 'Computer' company transitioned to just plain Apple,inc expanding their business to embrace all consumer goods for the 'digital lifestyle' (whatever the hell that is) in this postpc commodity space.
iPods are the ultimate disposable commodity. No battery to change, iterations for many generations without having the headaches of supporting their group of "iPod developers". The next generation touch will feature a Notes application! 3G touch will have Weather! okay that was bad.

3 yr old forlorn afterran urchin Palm handhelds play mp3, has a touch screen, sketches, games, wifi, video, email, (alas no 'nix), but is missing that ...something... that Apple has.

I keep pinging that feedback to Apple link, but in truth what is in it for them to cater to a bunch of smart intelligent tinkers striving for freedom in the face of all us lazy consumer drones who will salivate over and impulse pay for Jobs latest and greatest?

The New Mantra: I'll just wait.

Apple will NEVER create an API for the iPhone/iPod.

Why? Because Apple has already been there, done that. In the early years, for every OS release, Apple had to patch Mac OS to allow Microsoft Office to run. Microsoft created clever hacks in Office to do things that the Mac OS was not designed to do. Apple would buckle under to Microsoft's demands to add special code to the OS, otherwise Microsoft would pull its support from Apple.

When Apple bought Next and planned to move Mac OS to Unix, big software companies like Adobe, Macromedia and Symantec whined and threatened to drop Mac versions of their programs. Apple again spent massive amounts of time and money to create an upgrade API via Carbon.

Imagine some Fortune 500 company decides that all 20,000 of their employees will get iPhones and their IT department writes the killer app for the company that allows all of their business to be controlled through this killer app. The entire company's survival ends up depending on the iPhone. Then Apple decides to upgrade the OS on the iPhone, suddenly this company's business grinds to a halt because their custom app doesn't work anymore. Apple either gets sued or has to spend extra time creating upgrade paths and backward compatibility for all their APIs.

Opening up the iPhone/iPod with a public API costs Apple by having to support not only the API, but writing documentation, tracking bugs and application conflicts. Supporting an open API creates headaches such as developer beta NDA issues, dealing with investors and preventing competitors from learning too much, too soon about planned phone features.

An Apple exec last week said that Apple will not try to prevent third parties from creating and installing applications on the iPhone (and presumably the iPod as well), but that they would also not worry about breaking any application that is not part of the official release.

People out there say, well Apple could sell more product if they just did this or that. I'm pretty sure that they took that into account and decided opening up the phone for a few dozen script kiddies wasn't worth the hassle and could swallow a few lost sales.

iPhone API? Ain't gonna happen!