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Geohot’s Next Jailbreak Tool To Be Called Limera1n?

It seems like popular hacker George Hotz is already working on the next version of his popular jailbreak tool for iPhone and iPod Touch, currently called “Blackra1n”. According to Redmond Pie, the next iteration should be called “Limera1n” and it turns out that a website is already online and the Whois record points to the same credentials Hotz used for Blackra1n. We’re embedding it after the break.

I think Hotz is indeed working on this Limera1n tool, but it’s the one that will jailbreak OS 4.0 devices, so it’s not going to be available soon, like next week. As for the jailbreak of the current iPad, we heard that it’s near completion - so I guess that should come anytime now. Hopefully, we’ll be here in two weeks discussing Cydia for iPad.

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Steve Jobs Replies to Email: There Won’t Be A Mac App Store

We heard a rumor last week about Apple making some big changes to the Mac OS X platform, let’s say to 10.7, in order to make it similar to iPhone OS and introduce an App Store for Mac applications that should be approved by Apple first. People started complaining about it, and I guess this would be the worst thing that could happen to a Mac developer, indeed. There are entire business built on top of the open nature of Mac OS X, and Apple just can’t change it anymore.

Fortunately, Steve handled the situation himself and finally ended those rumors.

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What If I Had Bought Apple Stock Instead?

We all know Apple’s stock is now worth like never before. It’s been a terrific year for Apple, and so it’s been for those who bought stock years ago and now have a huge amount of money in their hands. I wish I had bought some Apple stock instead of that damn vacation in Switzerland. But what about Apple products? Have you ever wondered how much money you spent on those iPods and could have invested in stock instead?

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Steve Jobs now Making Personal Calls

Update: There was some initial confusion as to who made the call and who Michael talked to. Michael apparently talked to an Apple representative, rather than Steve’o himself. The article has been edited to reflect this change.

So there’ve been some display issues with the new iMacs. No one’s denying that. Now boot issues too? Oh boy. And one Mac loyalist was so fed up with his recent purchase that he wrote a snarky email to Steve Jobs himself about the situation. And what did Steve do? He had a representative leave a voicemail on Michael Weber’s machine. What CEO does this?

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iPod Touch Prototypes Spotted on eBay? [Update: Removed]

9to5Mac has found something very interesting on eBay: two prototypes of iPod Touch, with built in camera and labelled as “DVT-1” and “DVT-2”, “Apple Development Team”. They don’t have a firmware as we know it, they’re running some sort of “Switchboard “OS” instead, which might seem a legitimate fake OS testing teams run just to see the hardware working.

The eBay seller he doesn’t have idea where the devices come from, because he bought them “from a guy at a flea market, who bought them from a live auction in the Bay Area”.

We’re pretty sure Apple is going to report this and block the auction, because the devices really seem to be actual testing units, those ones we heard about many months ago and never went into the production process.

UPDATE: Just like we guessed, the auction has been removed. I wonder what’s going to happen to the seller now.

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iPhone in Japan: 72% of Smartphone Market

Good news for Apple: Businessweek reports that the shipments of the iPhone to Japan have more than doubled in the past year, taking 72% of the smartphone market.

“Shipments of the iPhone, which began selling in Japan in July 2008, climbed to 1.69 million units in the year ended March 31, Tokyo-based MM Research Institute Ltd. said in a report yesterday. That raised the total to 2.3 million, Hideaki Yokota, an analyst at the research firm, said by telephone today.

The iPhone helped smartphone sales more than double last fiscal year in Japan as shipments of regular mobile phones shrank, according to the report. Smartphone shipments will probably exceed 3 million units in the 12 months started April 1, even as the overall market is forecast to contract for a third year, it said.”

I’d be curious to see some stats for Italy though. Very good numbers, anyway.