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Love it, almost snorted my soda when I got to the part about Leopard compatibility ;-)

As for jailbreaking Apple display phones, I would imagine that they would have blocked the "offending" website in their routers by now... Although, I must admit I would find it kind of amusing to see an iPhone in an Apple store with AppTapp installed :-)

2 Questions:

Will patching the exploit cause problems if you ever have to Restore your phone and re-jailbreak it?

Does using this method with an untouched iPhone/Touch result in a functional YouTube app, as conventionally extra steps have been required to make that work.

@Tones, the unlucking law in question 100% French, you are correct. There is nothing requiring Apple to offer unlocked phones in other E.U. member states.

The problem in question here is that selling a product, in this case an unlocked iPhone, in one E.U. member-state with a mechanism (software or otherwise) to prevent its use in other member states is quite illegal. It's all part of the European Unions free trade agreements.

@Tones, I believe what you are talking about is illegal in the European Union. Restricting trade and commerce between E.U. member countries is very tricky business The very iTunes practice that you have mentioned has gotten Apple in some *very* hot water in the E.U. and is not yet (to the best of my knowledge) a settled issue.

@Dave I'd venture to say that this is why you have had iPhone sightings all over the net. These seem to have been given lots of real world use over the course of the last few months. Nobody has ever been spotted on a train using previous Rev A apple gear prior to launch. Let's hope that this is a sign that bodes well for the iPhone.

@12 You seem to be the kind who would have dismissed the iPod in it's early days, but fear not, you have plenty of company. I hear lots of people rambling about the price, the size, the fact that touchscreens have been done before, but each and every one of them misses the point. None of those devices has ever been done like *this*

There was lots talk on the streets when the Compaq iPAQ came out... and look at the world 6 years later. Pocket PCs have tacked on sliding keyboards, have tacked on phone, gps, and wifi... but the user interface has stagnated. The same quirks that have frustrated users since the inception of the Pocket PC still exist today. (Weak web browsing, weak calendaring, weak displays, touch screens designed around stylie, and [here's the big one] piss poor multimedia)

Apple is taking the industry bull by the horns and reinventing the user interface just like they did with the original iPod. (Anybody here remember the Creative Jukebox?... just try finding a song in it's massive 6GB harddrive in under 2 minutes.)

They are planning on hitting all of the quirks that have bothered WM users since it's inception and doing so in a device that ends up being no larger than the iPod. (The size of which hasn't kept half of New York from lugging one around at all times)

While Apple isn't talking down the hype, it's the consumers that have created it. So while you and your friends my watch the iPhone launch from across the street sitting on the grumpy bench... rest assured that the market share that Apple is praying for will either be in line, or *extremely* jealous of those who are.

I've got to agree with bebopredux. I have given my "old" iBook to my parents and Disco thrilled them because it was the first burning program that didn't confuse the heck out of them. It is simple, makes sense, and has never burned a coaster for me or my parents.

Hey Scott, in the screenshots where you compared your searches of the strings "tuaw" and "text" spotlight came up with more than two times the search results as Google Desktop.

Would you consider Google Desktop's search results as more relevant, or is it leaving out possibly important documents?

@Ned

Because it's interesting news for people running all operating systems... Apple included. If you had news that was more Apple relevant on a slow Saturday afternoon I'm sure they would have gladly accepted you tip ( http://www.tuaw.com/tips/ )

Either be happy with other people's insight or add some of your own.

My question is how well will a program like photoshop run in Safari. It seems like the few AJAX websites that support the big 'S' do so 6 months to a year after the fact. Is this because Safaris AJAX implimentation is different, or because the browser identifier scripts simply don't like you if you're not IE or Firefox?

umm... comparing that to the full sized iPod in the picture I can't imagine that fitting in anyone's pocket...