PurpleRa1n Jailbreak Tool Now Available for Mac OS X

The appropriate jailbreak tool for iPhone 3G S devices has reportedly been released for the Mac platform as well. Last week, as Softpedia reported the tool’s availability, supported platforms included Windows machines only. This week, a Mac version of PurpleRa1n is available to the public.

On Friday, July 3, 2009, a blogger going by the name of George Hotz posted what he called the jailbreak for Apple’s fresh iPhone 3G S. George Hotz or GeoHot is the author of the PurpleRa1n tool and revealed that the method was, at that time, supported only on Windows platforms. Windows 7 was (and likely still is) not compatible with the jailbreak solution.

“Yes, this is what you've all been waiting for,” GeoHot said in his blog post last week. “A jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS. And it's awesome. To get started right now, go to purplera1n.com. Download it. Make sure you have windows, the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with 3.0 firmware. Connect your iPhone normally. Click 'make it ra1n.' Wait. On bootup, run Freeze, the purplera1n installer app [...] Make sure to have everything backed up before running. Also if Cydia doesn't show up after running Freeze, reboot,” the message goes.

“I'm not a mac coder, so AriX and westbaer stepped up to do it,” reads GeoHot’s latest update. “Download link on purplera1n.com, and thank AriX and westbaer next time you see them! Also, some more payload stability improvements were made, and the windows version was updated to RC2a,” GeoHot writes.

Reportedly, once PurpleRa1n installs Cydia on your device, you can also use the Dev Team's UltraSn0w unlock tool.

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