14 DAY TRIAL // The iPhone Dev Team’s blog is officially down due to overload, according to the site’s administrators. The center of the page reads “we’ll be back shortly”. The message is identical to that used by Apple when the Mac maker pulls its store for maintenance.
Recently, the hackers released a brand new version of their PwnageTool jailbreak utility.
Version 4.1 of the software is able to spit out a custom IPSW that’s applicable to pretty much every iOS device, including the new Apple TV (second generation).
The update was warmly received by the jailbreak community. In fact, by the looks of the iPhone Dev Team’s blog, we could say PwnageTool was over-welcomed.
“Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable,” the Team states, just below the we’ll-be-back sign. “We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience,” the Dev Team adds.
PwnageTool not only jailbreaks an iPhone, but also unlocks it, enabling the owner to choose an unsupported operator’s services and use the iPhone on their network (for example T-mobile, in the U.S.)
It is interesting to see that the Dev Team’s servers cannot cope with demand for PwnageTool 4.1, which arrives days after the first reliable iOS 4.1 jailbreak tools emerged.
Clearly there is huge demand for the all-in-one jailbreak & unlock tool, but given that it’s only available for Mac OS X, could this really mean there are this many jailbreakers out there?
Could the Mac have more market-share than estimated? (Surely, no).
Could Apple have something to do with this?
Start your own speculation in the comments.
Update #1: the Team's blog is back up. Apparently, they also changed the PwnageTool version number from 4.1 to 4.1.1. Such a minor change does not require taking an entire web site offline, so it's not likely this has anything to do with their blog being strained.
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