I still remember Jailbreaking my first iPhone. It was amazing….you could add these things called Applications that did all sorts of wacky things. Yesterday we had the celebration of one year of the iPhone Application store whereby developers could release Applications (albeit with access to a limited set of services via the official API) via iTunes. Today, two weeks after the official release of 3.0 someone has jailbroken 3.0, you can get the hack here. George Hotz is 19 years old who made headlines with an original jailbreaking of the iPhone 2 years ago. It appears the kid has talent.

I know very few people who still jailbreak their iPhones but until Apple gives developers access to the complete set of APIs it is going to continue to be tempting. While the general population will be well-served by applications in the iTunes store there will continue to be innovative applications developed on Jailbroken phones.

Is your phone jailbreaked (is it jailbreaked or jailbroken?). Do you care if people like George keeping doing their thing or is it the realm of the underground geekosphere?

Via [AppleInsider]