JailbreakMe's Comex goes to work for Apple
Nicholas Allegra, aka Comex, aka the young man behind JailbreakMe.com, has been offered an internship with Apple, according to his recent Twitter update. "It's been really, really fun, but it's also been a while and I've been getting bored. So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple."
JailbreakMe.com has been around for awhile, and it's long been one of the easier methods of jailbreaking iOS devices. Over the years the site has gone through various iterations to get around Apple's attempts to plug the holes it exploited, but now it appears Apple has employed the greatest jailbreaking deterrence it can: a job offer.
After Comex was profiled in Forbes, we speculated it wouldn't be long before Apple offered him a position. It looks like congratulations are in order.
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On no, some dirty Indian thinks I'm a "looser" and can't even spell the word. Go back to riding your magic carpet, apu. Your opinions mean all of nothing. Also, garbage developers making crappy games like yours are the reason people started pirating to begin with, aladin. So please take your complaints back to your trash filled country
September 08 2011 at 3:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyPersonally, I pirate apps that don't have a Lite option, so I can try before I buy. If I install a cracked app and then never really use it, then I just delete it eventually. If, after a week or three, I find that I'm using the app regularly, then I go ahead and buy it. This supports the developer AND makes it quick and easy to get updates.
While it's true that a lot of people pirate and never buy, I don't believe that every pirated app equals one lost sale. I believe most of those people would not have paid for it if purchasing was their only option.
@arsenal6 So are you pirating the good apps that are worth the money, or the bad ones that aren't...?
August 26 2011 at 9:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThanks Jason, for calling all jailbrakers software pirates. I jailbroke to insert the sim card of my provider of choice. I never installed the installous or crackouls apps.
Thanks for posting your website url so I can make sure to never ever buy any of your apps.
"I'm sure people will get upset with this post, but if you JB to JB for features, that's fine. If you have Installous on your iPhone - Your a looser!"
The post is actually specifically excluding guys like yourself.
Anybody denying that there is a serious app stealing scene within the jailbreak community is either blind or willingly blocking this fact out.
T
App developers should make apps that are actually good then.
10% of apps are actually worth the money. the rest are garbage.
Shannon Doherty
@ arsenal6
Anytime you have a popular mainstream marketplace, there are bound to be more garbage than worthwhile stuff. It's always the case and is certainly not Apple's fault - they are the ones who implemented a curated system to mitigate this as much as possible while still being slagged by people for it.
I for one welcome him at Apple. Jailbreaking is cool, I did it for a while. But iOS 5 is awesome - so I'm not bothering now. With that said, I hope they put a stop to this JB scene. The piracy rate of software is insane on the JB community. Installous / crackouls, whatever is horrible! As a small indie developer I saw Game Center activity double in 1 day. Thought it might be sales, nope - Just on a cracked site. Thats just 1 instance I had. There are others.
The Mac / iOS community is awesome, great people out there. I have lots of respect for the community.
But come on people - these apps are $1-$5. If you can't pay for them and pirate apps you are a sorry piece of ****! I have no respect for you.
Thats what ruins the JB scene in my eye. I'm sure people will get upset with this post, but if you JB to JB for features, that's fine. If you have Installous on your iPhone - Your a looser! I'm sure a lot of Dev's that had apps cracked feel the same way.
So, Welcome to Apple Comex! I hope you can do something about it. I like M$ approach - If you mod your XBox 360 - Your done - Cant get on XBox Live at all - FOREVER. Apple should do the same thing. Might have people thinking twice before pirating an app that's $2 on a $500 device risking having a brick.
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What an arrogant post that incorrectly assumes that the only reason people jailbreak is for pirated apps.
August 26 2011 at 2:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"if you JB to JB for features, that's fine."
August 26 2011 at 3:27 AM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate downFilthy Indian scum. Take yourself back to your filthy country, no one cares about your beliefs, ape.
September 08 2011 at 3:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhen I first saw that picture I thought, "Why do they have a picture of Harry Potter on this story?" That aside this is pretty cool for this guy. More companies should do this kind of thing rather than sue the people who are passionate enough about their products to do this stuff.
August 25 2011 at 11:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyPeople Jailbreak for specific reasons, mainly because Apple is responding to slowly to demanded features and improvements. If Apple puts together a team to try and get out ahead of feature demand then the majority of Jailbreaking will die out as well. As with the Notifications in iOS5, who better to bring on then the people already supplying the features people are demanding.
At a certain level people want an Intermidate user option for iDevices. You get this in Macs as users become more experienced with the OS they start trying to tweak it to fit their tastes, like a finely molded recliner. Apple can't supply that level of "fit" for every user. What they should do is find ways to let Intermidate and Advanced users (and enterprise) do that "fitting" without breaking too much on the device.
Hopefully bring on a serious Jailbreaker like Comex will give them the talent they need to find and stabilize parts iOS to allow users a bit more wiggle room. Doing so would help them combat the #3 draw of Andriod, customization (#1 its the 'freebee' phone OS, #2 It anti-Apple)
(Still grumpy with App "restrictions" only by "age" and not on a "by App bases", and not having that as an option for pushed profiles to "hide" Apps in certain situations. Example a "testing" mode for student iPads with only the test App/Web-App being available.)
There goes the next jailbreak chances down the tubes.
August 25 2011 at 10:24 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Reply
Mark
The iphone dev team has many members and comex was only a recent member. MuscleNerd will most likely seek the next exploit. Plus don't forget all the betas for iOS 5 have been jailbroken, even though they are tethered.
August 25 2011 at 11:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThese beta jailbreaks are useless for the new a5 chip in the new iPhone. We will have no jailbreak and no unlock for quite a while.
August 26 2011 at 9:28 AM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down@Bimmer
It just means that they will will have to move to the new exploit that they have the for a5 chip. The iPad has been left out on all but one jailbreak (if I'm not mistaken) which happened to be from jailbreakme.com.
So any new iDevice that has the a5 chip will be jailbreakable. The only question is when the JB community will let it loose as it will show apple another hole that needs to be filled......
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