New Ultrasn0w Update Released; iPhone Dev-Team Speaks Out About "Competition" Purplesn0w
The iPhone Dev-Team, the folks responsible for the unlocking of the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS as well as their jailbreaking posted a blog update early today announcing that an update to ultrasn0w is now available that fixes bugs and is significantly smaller than the previous release. Details and instructions on how and where to get the update are available on the Dev-Team's blog.
What's more interesting however is the Dev-Team's self titled "Long version" of the events since the release of purplera1n and purplesn0w by geohot. While much of the post sticks to the gory technical details which is of no matter to the lot of us, there is a sense that they were not too pleased with the claims being made by geohot that purplesn0w was faster and better than ultrasn0w and yellowsn0w. After geohot let the Dev-Team have a look at the source code for purplesn0w, they came to the conclusion that geohot had indeed come up with some interesting ideas for his unlock solution, however they feel that in the long run, ultrasn0w will be more user-friendly and robust in the future especially as Apple releases more firmware updates (and thus baseband updates) which will break both colors of sn0w.
Personally, although I have no need for an unlock solution for my iPhone, if I did I would have to trust the Dev-Team's suggestions because they are the original authors of the iPhone 3G unlock and have a proven track record of knowing what they are dealing with and talking about which is one of the reasons why I understood why they originally chose to wait until iPhone OS 3.1 was released before unleashing Redsn0w (their new jailbreaking software) for the iPhone 3GS. They understand that importance of waiting until the time is right because, after all, this is a cat and mouse game they are playing with Apple. Geohot's release of purplera1n was a direct result of the Dev-Team's decision to wait and possibly partly due to him not understanding the rationale the Dev-Team had for waiting in the first place.
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