My Favorite iPhone Apps: Erica's Take

I would agree about Othello. It is quick to play and highly addictive. Complaining about apps that require a jailbreak is useless. It is so easy to jailbreak and restore the iPhone now that it shouldn't matter.

I read books and comics in my iphone, there is no official app that allows you to put any of your books or comics manually in your iphone. Until then I will have a jailbroken iphone :)

Erica,

I'm very disappointed to see that Snapture is not on your list of favorite apps. Have you seen the new Snapture yet? We worked so hard this time to build the best camera app out there. I can tell you that there is nothing in either jailbreak and appstore world that comes close to the usability of our app.

Please shoot me an email at contact@snapturelabs.com. Let me personally send you a license so you can experience for yourself what Snapture is all about.

Best,
Bowei

www.snapturelabs.com

I jailbroke my phone and got Cydia as part of the pwnage package. Problem is, I couldn't figure out what it benefitted me. I saw no command line, and when I browsed for apps for my jailbroken phone, I found little (most apps are for 1.x firmware, not 2.x). Can someone explain in more detail what jailbreaking my 3G really gets me? (Oh, the jailbreak process also took away most of the thumbnails from my iPhone's photos.)

Cmon Tuaw,
buy her an unlimited data plan!

guys, you can jailbreak a 2.0.2 via the dev team's pwnage tool http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

their jailbreak is pretty safe, and you can ALWAYS restore if something goes wrong. (this is because of the method they use)

Ebika:
Sure, i see what you mean, but when i say that it's a dead-end, i look at it from a slightly different perspective. Three months ago, the jailbreak community had hundreds of thousands, if not millions of users. Why? Well because all the iPhones that were used non-official got jailbreaked when people unlocked them.

But now the App Store and the iPhone 3G has been released, and i bet that only a small part of the of the, yeah, millions of people are jailbreaking there phones today.

That is just my opinion and i have no problem at all with people jailbreaking there phones, or Erica posting news about jailbreaking and all that sort of stuff. I just don't see a bright future for the whole jailbreak community, but i might be wrong ;)

I used Othello a while, until I realized I could not lose to the AI on the hardest difficulty. Even if I made random moves the first couple of moves. Then I found Morocco. The UI is way nicer, and the AI on hard is actually pretty nasty (I have only beat it a few times when set to the AI to being the first to act). Highly recommend switching out Othello for Morocco.

I gotta disagree; jailbreaking is just as important now as before. Apple has dumber down the SDK and capabilities far too much, and the jailbreak community is not hindered in any way. I hope they pick up the pace and perhaps get some investment money so we can see some real exciting stuff

OK list, but, as mentioned, the vast majority of us haven't got jailbroken iPhones anymore, now that the App Store is here. I think the jailbreak community is a dead-end now. I loved the jailbreak on my 1. gen iPhone with all the 1.1.x firmwares, but after 2.0 and my iPhone 3G, i just don't see the point in it anymore.

Far the most apps in the App Store are so much better than what you'll find in Cydia or Installer, and the apps that hasn't arrived at the App Store yet are coming at a very rapid pace.