Apple is still steadfastly against the idea that you should be able to Jailbreak your iPhone. You can imagine why, you might use more of that precious data or you might install programs that aren’t from the App store. Worse yet you might find a way to run android on the thing. Let’s face it, Jailbreaking your iPhone is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Just because you own the thing doesn’t mean you should be able to use it how you see fit. Nope you’ve got to leave everything up to Apple. End sarcasm.

Still, Apple’s position is that Jailbreaking is bad and the company has a new weapon to help prevent you from actually Jailbreaking the thing. The new tool? The new MacBook and MacBook pros the company recently revealed. Sure the machines are beautiful and I really, really want one but if you try to use one to Jailbreak your iPhone you’ll be out of luck. Apple has made some clever change in the OS or hardware that prevents the iPhone from going into DFU restore mode when attached to one of the new machines. If it is in the OS there’s a good chance this behavior will spread to all Macs via software update sometime in the future.

Via: IntoMobile