Announcement: Saurik live chat at 4:15 (ET) today

Please join us this afternoon at 4:15 Eastern for a live chat with Jay "Saurik" Freeman. Jay is going to talk to us about Apple's new signature server and what that means to you as an iPod or iPhone owner.

Have you noticed a new message in iTunes when you restore an iPhone or iPod touch? "Verifying restore with Apple..."? iTunes is now checking your unit against a registered database and deciding whether to allow you to install your firmware or not. Potentially, Apple could disallow downgrades to previous firmware versions. According to Freeman, this move allows Apple to "recall existing firmwares by keeping people from restoring to them in the future. To do this they simply would refuse to ever sign, for example, iPhone OS 3.0 again."

Freeman will explain why this is a real problem to both the standard App Store community and to the jailbreak community. Join us with your questions.

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jbrown510

"Potentially, Apple could disallow downgrades to previous firmware versions."

There is no "potentially" they are are refusing to sign 3.0.1 on 3GSs.

I'm looking forward to this chat :)

September 24 2009 at 1:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

lostgame

As a legit app store developer, this situation is the worst for us - we need to test and support these new firmware versions, but we also sometimes want/need to support older firmware versions as well. This makes testing on older firmwares near impossible.

Apple, what the hell? Seriously. Go die somewhere.

September 24 2009 at 1:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Manny

for those of us that were smart enough to stay on 3.0 just be happy you did. But as apple continues to try and cap every loop hole found by the dev-team its going to only get harder to jailbreak.

now that they are requesting signature of the firmware its going to be even harder, i just hope that the dev-team finds another workaround to this signature request. Just to throw it in apples face!!

September 24 2009 at 12:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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toratoko

It's not that some of us weren't "smart enough" to stay on 3.0, there's also the fact that our devices just blow up in our face and we have no choice to restore with an ECID that isn't on Saurik's server. Please be aware that not everyone in the world is an unwise upgrade-fiend.

But I understand what you are trying to say in your comment...

September 24 2009 at 2:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

totoro

"Freeman will explain why this is a real problem to both the standard App Store community and to the jailbreak community"

Well, its obviously a "real problem" for the jailbreak community. I'm sure we'll hear about how the rest of users will be "losing out on the chance to legitimately go back to older firmware to "troubleshoot" etc...but the reality is the vast number of those in standard App Store community really don't care about stuff like this.

September 24 2009 at 12:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bob

>Please join us this afternoon at 4:15 Eastern for a live chat with Jay "Saurik" Freeman.

Where do I go to join you? A link would be nice.

September 24 2009 at 11:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bassjunkie

what does this all mean for the state of jailbreak? Hating the fact that I upgraded to the most recent version of iTunes last nite...

September 24 2009 at 11:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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