iphone3gs_jailbreak

It looks like iPhone 3GS owners are going to have to wait a little longer than initially expected for a jailbreak.  The iPhone Dev-Team has announced that even though the 3GS jailbreak is ready to go, they aren’t going to be making it available to the public at this point.

The long and short of it is that the Dev-Team is still playing their cat and mouse game with Apple and they really, really don’t want to lose.  They feel that if they make the 3GS jailbreak available to the public right now, Apple will fix the “bug” for all future devices sold.

“The jailbreak requires at least one signed iBoot-family img3 for your device. And that iBoot needs to have an exploitable bug. It’s an all-or-nothing deal…you either have your signed exploitable iBoot ready to use, for now and forever — always jailbreakable — or you have nothing.

Here’s the critical point, the reason why we’re delaying our version of the jailbreak: Once the jailbreak is out, Apple will fix the iBoot-family bug we use to accomplish it. They will simply stop signing the old iBoots and only sign the fixed ones. If you bought your phone after Apple has done this, there’s nothing you can do…the jailbreak isn’t going to work for you.”

Basically, the team doesn’t want to reveal the bug to Apple.  They do understand, however, that Apple may find the bug without them revealing it, but they feel it is better to be safe than sorry.

The Dev-Team also believes that Apple will be releasing a 3.0.1 firmware very shortly, so they are just going to wait and see what that brings before figuring out a new release date for the jailbreak.  In the meantime, they are working on fixing some remaining iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak issues, including push notifications.

The Dev-Team is looking out for the best interests of current and future 3GS owners, and you can’t fault them for that.