I don't know about you, but I would think more than just twice when facing that big decision for any iPhone owner - to go forward with iPhone unlocking, or not, and the reason for saying this is obvious. Just think about unlocking your iPhone, then updating your software, and losing all your precious data!
While that doesn't happen every day, even seeing that you can't update your software and keep it working on your jailbroken device can be a big frustration, but it all seems to finish nicely once again, as we're going to see right away...
...as we're turning back to the now notorious iPhone Dev-Team, and their Christmas & New Year promise: a pwnage tool ready to crush the protections of the iPhone 3G, "a few days after Christmas."
One team member said "Right now for 02.11.07 we have some untested ideas. Ideally we'd have something solid by the end of next week, but if we don't then it would be a staged release, with 01.45.00 first out of the gate," so the firmware 2.0 of the iPhone 3G should be the first one to fall. Other than that, patience is all we need, since this team managed to jailbreak the iPhone properly a few times so far, and I have no doubt they'll do it again.
At last, one personal opinion - as Apple starts to allow more and more apps into its App Store, jailbreaking an iPhone/iPod Touch may soon become useless, but that's one more thing we need to wait and see for ourselves...
Alan, on December 15, 2008
As long as there is MAME4iPhone, PSX4iPHone, Gen4iPhone, Quake III, Tweaking Apps, etc, there will ALWAYS be a need for jailbreaking. I highly doubt that Apple would let something like this into the Appstore.