Apple iPad comes with inhouse App store and will run all 140,000 iTunes App store apps from day 1. A new SDK will allow developers to customize iPad apps with more power. But thats now what many are looking for. How about Jailbreaking? Killing the netbook market, or rather challenging the netbook market – Apple has surely managed to create a stir in the industry. But when we talk books, magazines, newspapers, digital content, textbook along with apps – the scope for jailbreakers and hackers goes beyond imagination.
3billion apps have been downloaded on the App store officially and close to 10% iPhones / iPod touch’s are said to be jailbroken. If this hacking culture comes to the iPad, you might well have a serious piracy issue in hand. The App store piracy in a recent estimate was pegged at $0.5 bln approx. With leading newspapers and magazines added to the mix, its a serious commitment that Apple is making with the iPad.
You may say that the Kindle already brings home ebooks and newspaper, but why the issue only with the iPad? Well the issue is the advanced hardware and software that Apple brings in. If a single app on your iPad/iPhone that upon a click of a button can bring you all those apps and books for free, that you would normally pay for – wouldn’t it be a big loss to Apple and its partners?
On the other hand, the prospect of Jailbreaking is some good 3rd party apps, which would otherwise never make it to the wall-gardened App store. However my concern is piracy!
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If this happens I might actually consider buying one of these.
I agree. No multitasking! there is so much more that can be done with this device…
I’m getting one too if I can jail break it….
COOL
hackers always find a way to jailbreak so i’ll be getting one of these…i’m just hoping there will be actual mods (ie sound reactive leds) because i’ve modded all my gaming consoles (xbox 360, ds etc.) and that’s one thing i missed with the itouch… and even if there are only software mods, it would still be awesome because i just started making my own cydia themes/apps!!Â
 
Here’s the first thing that came to MY mind….Since my iphone is Jailbroken and I can tether to my macbook, it would be awesome to be able to tether the iPad, thereby needing only the cheaper wi-fi model and share the data limit (0) with iPhone. It brings tears to my eyes.
Why is it that everyone assumes that JailBreak (hack) equals piracy… Is it ignorance or a smear?
Jailbroken phones are about running software Apple will not allow. This is your right and choice. Running pirated apps makes you a criminal. Jailbreaking your phone doesn’t.
i bought an iphone 3gs almost four months ago and have already spent $378 on apps. it is adictive and i think the iphone is great.
i wouldn’t have even considered buying it though if it wasn’t for the jailbreaking. the device is so much more useful, jailbroken.
given the fortune i spent, i think i deserve to get the full benefit of it. apple has shown time and again that they cannot be trusted as gatekeepers of their own creations and without the option of third party software the device is not worth buying.
I imagine the same will apply to this new larger, faster itouch.
I agree with Jeff. My iPhone has an extended keyboard that is a tually useful with full qwertyand arow of numbers. I don’t have to use nearly as manyannoying shifts to type. I even have a full Dvorak keyboard. I used cydia to installthose keyboards but theywere broken so I used icey to download a fixed version. I have arrow keys that allow FULL navigation inside URL windows that Re sometimes difficult to move to either end when text scrolls out of view using Apples lame keyboard.
I am not running any illegal software.
Jailbreak is about the full user experience that Ape has denied
Sorry for the typos. I downloaded the btstack keyboard and should have used that instead of my modified virtual keyboard.
What’s wrong with Jailbreaking? Due to my Jailbreak, I can multi taske free up 20+ extra RAM, more 3rd party apps and mod my games to get super power/speed/no clip etc etc.
they should at least have the option to get themes :+I
For those in need of a multitask function, jailbroken iPod Touchs can download an app called Backgrounder in cydia.  This apps like you operate more than one app at a time.  You may also download an app called ProSwitcher that lets you change between open apps just like a palm pre.  Check it out, it works really well.  Hopefully this app will work on the iPad as well!
i agree with everyone here, ESPECIALLY the 1st few posters. i would only ever THINK about buying this if it was jail-broken. otherwise it remains a disappointment and nowhere near the “magical/revolutionary” device that Jobs was blubbering about in the keynote. just an enlarged itouch… nothing more/nothing less…
How to take apart one of these so we can add more ram?
i just decided to look at the page linked to above regarding the 450 million losses to piracy. as i suspected it is based on nothing but guesses. of course, i also don’t know the actual figures but from what i can see, iphone app piracy seems negligible. it seems apple thinks so too otherwise they would be making a much bigger fuss. apple is a very litigious company, not one to take infringements lying down but i think the fact that most apps only cost a dollar or so, means that piracy just isn’t worth it for most people.