The iPhone Dev team just released numbers for the Absinthe A5 jailbreak. According to the site, 953,232 new jailbreaks were recorded. That’s a whole lotta hacking.
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Absinthe A5 was released Friday months after A5-powered iPhone 4S and iPad 2 first hit the market. The CPU was actually the main reason why the hack was a bit more difficult to pull off than previous jailbreaks. And if you’re worried that spying tools are the reason why the Dev Team knows how many devices have been jailbroken, you can rest assured that’s not the case.
The reason these number can be so precise is that one of the housekeeping activities that happens when you launch Cydia is a query to @saurik’s server for the list of available SHSH blobs. (Even if you have none on file, the query is still made).
Initially the tool was OS X only, but now that a Windows version of the tool is available, expect that number to grow even more. [Dev-Team]
Troy
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 10:59 PMIf only people realised Android devices don’t need to be hacked to be good
AdamW
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 11:14 PMJust rooted?
Ozoneocean
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 12:29 AMNot really since you’re generally very free with what you’re able to do and the settings you can play with, the sort of freedom that people want when they jailbreak.
Rooting is another level again.
A
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 1:35 AMDo U guys really know what u guys saying! Rooting an android phone is just same as u jaibreak iPhone. There is no another level really any phone which is operating the custom fw is already hack = jailbreak so think before comment please
Vx
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 10:32 AMAnd going back to Troy’s comment. They don’t need to be hacked to be good. You don’t need to root your android device to do half the ‘equivalent’ stuff that a jailbroken iPhone does.
Ozoneocean
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 12:33 AMGood on them! Users Should have more control over their own devices!