I'm just gonna throw this out there, even though it's wild speculation...
They've burnt Geohot's exploits for a 7.1
jailbreak, as the release timing means that
they will be patched by Apple and be completely
useless in the future.
The jailbreak they released is worthless for
the moment due to them not bothering to include
the proper Substrate releases from saurik.
This all comes through at a curious moment, when Apple announces a massive deal that opens up a truly vast Chinese market for them.
So, like, what if Apple and the Communist Chinese have colluded to prevent jailbroken iPhones in China, as part of the deal? Mostly because we're already talking about buy-offs and leaks with curious timing... So, somewhere along the line Xi Jinping and Tim Cook have a little sit down, and shortly thereafter, members of PLA Unit 61398 approach evad3rs on IRC all like:
"the people of china need iPhones, but the chinese
government, needs them to be 'safe' [wink]...
if we give you certain... packages, mr. hotz is uh...
known to have, maybe eh... well ...listen, i'm just
going to come out and say it... geohotz needs to
take a fall. here's a retainer, see what you can do."
</hand-wavey-magical-thinking>
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I'm just gonna throw this out there, even though it's wild speculation...
This all comes through at a curious moment, when Apple announces a massive deal that opens up a truly vast Chinese market for them.http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/23/us-apple-china-mob...
So, like, what if Apple and the Communist Chinese have colluded to prevent jailbroken iPhones in China, as part of the deal? Mostly because we're already talking about buy-offs and leaks with curious timing... So, somewhere along the line Xi Jinping and Tim Cook have a little sit down, and shortly thereafter, members of PLA Unit 61398 approach evad3rs on IRC all like:
If they had already known about the exploit, it would have been much easier and more straightforward for them to just fix it.