I'm wanting an ipod touch, but I'm curious if people think it'll go down the same road as the iphone if I hack it, will it get bricked too? \
My guess would be anytime you modify the firmware there is a chance that a future update might go squirrelly. I have a touch now...I am taking the wait and see approach....for a couple of reasons.
one to see if apple releases an update fixing the calendar app and maybe adding some new apps.
two....to see how the jailbreak evolves, I find the hack pretty intimidating and so I would want it to be a more polished 1click operation.
Finally I would need to see some really amazing apps being made that I could'nt live without.
having said all of that...in my opinion the touch is not yet a mature product, it works well but still has many issues....it will probably be 3 or 4 updates down the road before it is completely stable. It's at that point I would consider a hack and probably just ignore future updates.
The 'hack' on the iPod touch won't brick the device - all it's doing it opening up read/write access to the file system. The original firmware can always be restored easily.
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I'm wanting an ipod touch, but I'm curious if people think it'll go down the same road as the iphone if I hack it, will it get bricked too?
My guess would be anytime you modify the firmware there is a chance that a future update might go squirrelly. I have a touch now...I am taking the wait and see approach....for a couple of reasons.
one to see if apple releases an update fixing the calendar app and maybe adding some new apps.
two....to see how the jailbreak evolves, I find the hack pretty intimidating and so I would want it to be a more polished 1click operation.
Finally I would need to see some really amazing apps being made that I could'nt live without.
having said all of that...in my opinion the touch is not yet a mature product, it works well but still has many issues....it will probably be 3 or 4 updates down the road before it is completely stable. It's at that point I would consider a hack and probably just ignore future updates.