Jailbreak hardware
- Thread starter eddkahn
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What kind of stuff are you thinking about?
The trouble with making specific hardware is that there is no guarantee the a device can be jailbroken and can stay jailbroken. You can imagine all the returns a hardware manufacturer would get because people "accidentally" upgraded their device to a non-jailbreakable version of IOS. It could also make support quite tricky.
Hardware generally only becomes cost effective at volume, therefore you would need to shift a lot of units and keep the momentum up for it to be reasonably profitable. Jailbreaking is very popular, but I'm not sure there is a killer peripheral which enough people would buy...
A more typical usage scenario is for jailbreaking to enable the use of hardware which is not supported by the iPad. For example, I use my Apple Magic Trackpad quite nicely thanks to JB bluetooth mouse drivers.
Interested to hear what kind of hardware you are envisaging.
Cheers.
The trouble with making specific hardware is that there is no guarantee the a device can be jailbroken and can stay jailbroken. You can imagine all the returns a hardware manufacturer would get because people "accidentally" upgraded their device to a non-jailbreakable version of IOS. It could also make support quite tricky.
Hardware generally only becomes cost effective at volume, therefore you would need to shift a lot of units and keep the momentum up for it to be reasonably profitable. Jailbreaking is very popular, but I'm not sure there is a killer peripheral which enough people would buy...
A more typical usage scenario is for jailbreaking to enable the use of hardware which is not supported by the iPad. For example, I use my Apple Magic Trackpad quite nicely thanks to JB bluetooth mouse drivers.
Interested to hear what kind of hardware you are envisaging.
Cheers.
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