Apple didn't hire GeoHot, Facebook hired GeoHot, after Sony sued the **** out his ***.
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genesimmons didnt apple hire the genius that was responsible for jailbreaking their i lineup.i read somewhere they did that.jailbreaking and rooting opens up sooooo many doors.a jailbroke ipod is god.i cant belive they didnt hire this guy sooner to develop for them.rooted apps and themes would only help the pb market.look how excited everyone is over android apps and half dont even work.imagine unlimited free apps and beatiful themes.
Noone had any idea who this was before this happened. And I'll say it once more, rooting the Playbook get's you nowhere right now. In my other post I mentioned how iOS is jailbroken to side load, what no one seems to understand is we can do this already. People may seem to think that with this root we will be able to code our own drivers and such, not going to happen, iOS is torn apart when jailbroken creating holes all over the place in the software. This guy saying "Oh... this is the mack truck of exploits" means nothing. If he can manage to decrypt the Playbook's firmware then we'll be getting somewhere, I don't see this happening though.
Someone mentioned that this will make it so the Android player can install APKs through the Market place, ok sure, but there are still limitation like Android Native code not working on the Playbook, since the App Player is only a VM of sorts. So where does this get us? Right where we are right now? Installing android apps that have probably already been converted?