One of the more useful iPhone applications I’ve found and used goes beyond Apple’s SDK by installing a quick-glance menu on the iPhone’s “locked” screen. In it, you can add calendar items, mail, sms, or a variety of other things. It’s a great idea and something the iPhone is desperately missing.
So you can imagine my dismay when, after installing on my pwned (hacked) phone and thinking to myself, “this is a good product, perhaps I should buy it” I ran into a brick wall:
No. Not happening. You just can’t do this, no matter how cool your software is! This screen says two things to me:
- Developer is overly confident that their software is the bomb, will never fail, never break, never act differently than a user might expect.
- Developer wants distance from the users of his/her product because users like me are dumb and will contact them about stuff they just don’t want to be bothered with, like their bomb-less application crashing.
It’s great developers are finding an outlet outside of Apple’s App Store to sell applications but this one is not for me.
Did you jailbreak 2.0? I want to upgrade to 2.0, but I kind of wanted to make sure they had the whole jailbreak/unlock thing worked out first…. (I’m unlocked on 1.3)
Jill, yes, jailbreaking 2.0 is easy. However they just came out with 2.01… so if you were to go into iTunes and hit update it would send you over to 2.01. Also of note is that just about ZERO of the applications you could find on 1.3 exist on 2.0. I don’t think that is too much of an issue though because there are lots of good new apps, and if you have 2.0 you can purchase Wordabble!
My suggestion for you is to use an app called pwnagetool (found here) to take your phone from 1.3 to 2.0. You’ll be good to go then, except possibly missing a few apps.