The iPhone hackers are at it again and this time they have been able to get unofficial native third-party iPhone applications to run on the new iPhone firmware (Aspen).
The thing that is quite interesting here is that they have been able to develop the yet-to-be-released iPhone firmware 1.2 compliant unofficial iPhone applications using the official SDK by modifying the headers.
The iPhone hackers are claiming that even though Apple had announced that they are releasing tools which are being used internally to develop iPhone applications, they have only exposed a set of lightweight front-ends for lower-level APIs with the SDK and not the low-level APIs which are actually used most widely by Apple's own preloaded software.
With this hack it essentially means that developers of the unofficial native iPhone applications should be able to get their applications to iPhone firmware 1.2 with the modified headers and a simple recompile. iPhone hacking genius who has made this possible along with Saurik, another iPhone hacking expert has also got one of the unofficial native iPhone application Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator (NES app) running on the iPhone firmware 1.2 to demonstrate it using the open tool chain and with very minimal code changes.
As noted by developer Jonahthan Zdziarksi:
"I have just finished building NES.app (my Nintendo emulator) for Aspen, which is one of the more complex iPhone applications, and managed to do so without making any code changes whatsoever (pushing the few minor changes into header macros)."
You can checkout more details of the hack here.
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Is it firmware 1.2, or 2.0? The various rumor sites seem to be calling it 2.0 mostly.
Hey distortedloop,
Good to hear from you again.
Thats a good question as there is some confusion regarding the firmware version, let me make an attempt to solve the confusion.
If you navigate to the Settings pane in the iPhone emulator included with the iPhone SDK, you’ll notice the OS version listed is 1.2. The iPhone emulator gives developers the ability to debug iPhone applications right on their computer.
Interestingly this unreleased iPhone firmware 1.2 is code-named “Aspen" which falls in line with previous, ski-resort-related code names for iPhone OS releases. iPhone 1.1.1 was called SnowBird; 1.1.2 was Oktoberfest; 1.1.3 was LittleBear, etc.
However, the iPhone firmware update which will allow end-users to run official iPhone applications and will include the enterprise features expected to be released in June for iPhone users will be iPhone firmware 2.0. It remains to be seen whether iPhone firmware 1.2 will be released to the general public as iPhone firmware 2.0 or constrained just to the emulator.
However in my opinion since there is still quite some time left for iPhone firmware 2.0 to be released, I believe there would be some changes between the unreleased iPhone firmware 1.2 and iPhone firmware 2.0.
cheers!
Ah, that's a great answer. Thanks for clearing that up.
We wouldn't expect magic from Apple in its new so called 2.0, there were so many release and firmware updates since Iphone first launching, however Apple stills didn't really come up to the level of meeting its customers expectations in terms of phone usability, since the iphone stills in lack of so many applications that even any primitive phone has, Apple should have enough pride of its new technological interface and turn seriously into equipping Iphone with the needed applications to meet our expectations as users.
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