Well I am sure allot of developers are going to feel gutted. It seems that a certian hacker has figured out how to make signed Apps downloaded from the AppStore work on iPhones and iPod Touch's without purchasing them from the AppStore.
Apple is going to be pissed.
Users can simply find the App they want on their favorite torrent/sharing site and them perform a simple patch to a file on their computer, upload the files via OpenSSH, set some permissions, reboot their phones and viola, it works. Some Apps like Super Monkey Ball have been cracked and are easy to find. Instructions can be found here
I am not much on the side of pirating software and stealing money out of the pockets of the Developers who created all these fantastic Apps and Games. We'll see how long it takes Apple to fix this, because this was obviously too ...
New Apps on the AppStore
- American Heritage® Dictionary - Desk Edition July 25, 2008
- Annotater July 25, 2008
- CellSpin July 25, 2008
- Editer July 25, 2008
- FlashMath July 25, 2008
- Fonts July 25, 2008
- iCandy July 25, 2008
- iChoose July 25, 2008
- iDo July 25, 2008
- Wall Street Words July 25, 2008
- French-German Translation Dictionary by Ultralingu July 24, 2008
- French-Italian Translation Dictionary by Ultraling July 24, 2008
- French-Spanish Translation Dictionary by Ultraling July 24, 2008
- PowerMaze July 24, 2008
- QuickTip July 24, 2008
AppStore Reviews from TUAW
- Ad-Hoc and the Washington Post
- TUAW Memewatch: iPhone developers irked over still-active NDA
- First Look: FileMagnet
- Sketchy site offers iPhone apps 'at a price that's a steal'
- First Look: WordPress
- 2 weeks later: iPhone apps I actually use
- First Look: Bloomberg
- WordPress: our iPhone app is coming soon
- TUAW Review: eWallet for iPhone
- First Look: Mocha VNC Lite
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