The 1.1.1 did NOT brick phones that had used jailbreak. It bricked some (maybe most - don't know) of the SIM unlocked phones. 1.1.1 rendered the older jailbreak ineffective but it did not brick those phones. This kind of sloppy reporting is inexcusable and can only be interpreted as being to to garner hits.

But I thought the iPod touch was so different that those apps wouldn't work!

Or there is no need for those apps, because its an iPod, not a phone.

Of course, one has to wonder how much better the phone could be if Apple devoted their resources towards features and bug-fixing and not worrying about encrypting their disks and adding other "security" measures to keep people out of the phone?

The plans to eventually encrypt and lock down the firmware were in place long before iPhone even shipped -- Apple has multi-year roadmaps, and seeing as how they are very public about how iPhone has a 2 year updates curve, and they have confirmed that they will be releasing monthly updates for it, the encrypting of firmware was not an afterthought.

As such, this added zero overhead to their development efforts.

As always, testudo is out of the loop, and clueless - is it any surprise?

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The plans to eventually encrypt and lock down the firmware were in place long before iPhone even shipped -- Apple has multi-year roadmaps, and seeing as how they are very public about how iPhone has a 2 year updates curve, and they have confirmed that they will be releasing monthly updates for it, the encrypting of firmware was not an afterthought.

As such, this added zero overhead to their development efforts.

I'm sorry, how does it NOT have any overhead. They had to code it, debug it, make sure its completely secure and bug-free, before it was even released. Perhaps if they used that time to better develop the features of the iPhone itself, it would be an even better device. Regardless of when it was done, it has taken resources to do. And as they try to keep ahead of the hackers, that also takes effort.

And how do you know the plans were in place to do this two years ago?

As always, testudo is out of the loop, and clueless - is it any surprise?

No, as always, zink misreading and misreporting posts trying to knock other commentators as uninformed or ignorant.

Just never learn. Break your s***, don't go crying to to Apple (and this is from someone who did the whole app tapp thing - I did love mobile chatapp, but I'm not risking my iphone to use it); it's really that simple. dcw

This just shows how easy it would have been for Apple to include maps and mail. It's nice that someone hacked the iPod touch to work with maps and mail, but I still won't buy one until Apple officially supports it. Unless there is a price drop :-)