Apple seems to be playing the cat and mouse again with iTunes 8. They have coded in some countermeasures to the Dev Teams PWNAGE Tool. If you try to PWN/restore your device with a custom firmware, that has not been pwned before with iTunes 8 you will get one of a few errors. The Dev Team have said that PWNAGE Tool will require a hardware upgrade to stop PWNAGE from working, and that this is meerly a speedbump in the road to freedom. Read more below:

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If you’ve been following the technical aspects of our blog since July, you may have noticed that we’ve asserted multiple times that Apple can’t fix the bug we’ve exploited in PwnageTool unless they fix their hardware.

That hardware fact is still true.  But one way they can try to combat Pwnage for existing hardware is to program iTunes to detect and prevent the Pwnage exploit.  In fact, they’ve already done that in iTunes 8.  The screenshot below from iTunes 8 using a Pwned ipsw (with an unPwned device attached) is one example.

The nice thing about iTunes decisions is that we can provide you with patches to counter them.  We have one such patch already for Mac iTunes 8 for iPod touch.  We’ll be working out the full suite of patches for all the combinations over the next week.

Here are 2 screenshots that Apple doesn’t want you to see.  Notice the Terminal icon at the end of:

Then once we’ve launched it, despite mobiledevice’s best intentions:”

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Apple has posted the QuickTime video of todays event, you can watch it here.

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Update Below iTunes 8 is now available and I wasted no dive diving in to see what the big deal was about. Firstly the 36MB install went smoothly and from the get go I noticed some new graphics and new colors. After it imported my music, podcasts etc first thing I did was try out the new Genius Bar. It scanned my music library and sent it off to big brother.

Once that was complete any song you select the genius bar on the right suggests albums, songs and playlists. Cool. The next thing I checked out was the new visualizations and all I can say is WOW. Talk about Acid Trip. Who ever created this, I want whatever he is on, this is amazing. (check the video I made, but please turn down your speakers, I don’t know what happened to the audio in Cycorder )

The last and not least, I tried PWNing an iPhone with iTunes 8 - Not working. Error 1600. (updated below). PWNING with iTunes 8 only works from Restore Mode.

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The Big Apple event took off today at promptly 10:00 AM Pacific with a Apple CEO Steve Jobs taking the wheel. He started off by saying -

“The topic this morning is music. Let’s start with iTunes. It’s the ubiquitous store and music player. It now offers 8.5 million songs. It’s amazing. Over 125,000 podcasts, over 30,000 TV shows, 2600 movies… and we now offer over 3,000 apps for iPhone and touch.”

iTunes 8 has been updated and NBC content is now available, along with some new features. HD TV shows, new browsing views and a Genius Bar. The new Genius Bar creates playlists tailored to your tastes and library. You can now automatically create playlists with just one click.

Next on the agenda was iPods. Apple is has two model iPod Classic, thin and thick, they are discontinuing the thick one. The iPod Classic is now 120GB at $249 USD.

Next is the new iPod Nano 16GB, $149 for 8GB, $199 for 16GB., it’s the thinnest iPod Nano yet and looks exactly like the leaked shots we saw. The screen is the same size as the current Nano, but rotated 90*. The New iPod Nano also has the accelerometer from the iPhone and iPod Touch in there now too so you can shake it to shuffle. Also expect some great new games. There is also a new headphones (for $79 or a iPhone Headphone will do ;)) with integrated mic that will allow voice recording - SWEET!.

The iPod Nano will also be available in seven nine new nano-chromatic colors, Black, Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Pink and Silver. Stats are 24 hours battery life for music, 4 hours for video. I sense some AppStore Action for the Nano and of course the Genius bar is there for playlist.

Steve Jobs also added:

“We want to be environmentally sensitive. We’re constantly worrying about it. But the biggest thing is toxins — we have an internal checklist, but the new iPods look great from this point of view. They’re highly recyclable… we’re really trying our best. We think these new nanos are the cleanest we’ve ever built.”

Next up was the iPod Touch. Same display, but even thinner with contoured stainless steel design. The new

Touch has a integrated volume controls into the side, built-in speaker (yay) and Nike+ and of course he New Genius bar and AppStore. Check out the guided tour of the new iPod Touch for more info

Speaking of AppStore, Phil Schiller also presented today and started off by demoing Spore Origins (one of my new favorite games for iPhone), Real Soccer 2009 and Need For Speed: Undercover. The new iPod Touch is available in three models, 8GB $229, 16GB for $299, and a 32GB for $399.

Steve Jobs also announced that iPhone Firmware 2.1 will be available for all iPhone and iPhone 3G owners from Friday 12 September. It will have some bug fixes, a signal boost and better battery. - Besides some Jack Johnson, that was about it. What did you expect? Me, I expected allot more..

[via Engadget]

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Kevin Rose originally leaked and reported the news about iTunes 8.0, to support the report he has now published an interface mock up of the new iTunes 8. It aint much..

Below is the new visualizations for iTunes 8 captured from Steve Jobs’ flashbacks.

Magnetosphere revisited (audio by Tosca) from flight404 on Vimeo.

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It seems that last last night someone over in Apple Web Department accidentally posted a download button and link for the new iTunes 8 on the Apple website. Who ever that unlucky person is was quickly struck with Steve Jobs’ rod of correction and as quickly as it was posted, it was removed. Here is a screen shot taken by the lucky/unlucky person that spotted it.

Why is he unlucky you ask? Simply because releasing it may get you in some pretty hot water. iTunes 8 has not been legally authorized for distribution and distributing it could potentially get you sued by Apple. Even though Apple may loose the court case, they have the money to take you to court and potentially bankrupt you in the process even if you win.

So he and probably a few others are enjoying the new iTunes 8, if they dare - What would you do?

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