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May 28th, 2012, 13:09 GMT · By

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Absinthe 2.0 Jailbreaks 1.2 Million Devices in First Weekend; Poll

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Using a headline worthy of Apple’s press room, should the Cupertino giant condone such things, the Chronic Dev Team has confirmed on Twitter that their Absinthe 2.0 tool has been downloaded and used to jailbreak no less than 1,2 million iDevices running the latest iOS.

“Some stats since release of #Absinthe - 211,401 jailbroken iPad3's and 973,086 devices newly jailbroken!”, reads the message (sans other Twitter hashtags and smileys).

The numbers are impressive, to say the least. Analysts can deduct quite a few things from this, such as the popularity of certain solutions that are only available as jailbreak tweaks, or how many people jailbreak to avoid downloading software from Apple’s App Store.

In fact, let’s use the comments section as a poll. How anxious have you been for the arrival of Absinthe 2.0, and what has been your main reason to jailbreak?

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Comment #1 by: Munky on 28 May 2012, 20:10 UTC reply to this comment

Themes and tweaks. The current Notification Center is USELESS without the SBSettings plug in. As hundreds of other plugins as well. As for themes... personalization is a nice thing. It's our phone and we want to make it ours, is that too much to ask from Apple?


Comment #2 by: Alba on 29 May 2012, 05:14 UTC reply to this comment

In my opinion; mainly people jailbroken their Apple device(s) to have the tweak which will make the device really functional & personalized. I don't think it's much for avoiding downloading apps from the Apps Store. I personally don't mind buying apps as long as I know it's worth the money. And I believe there are so many people out there whom think as this is the case.

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