While over 500,000 Apps (507,284 precisely) currently approved, over 401,436 apps are now available to download in the App Store as shown by AppShopper‘s statistical numbers and noted by AppAdvice:
This is amazing. The App Store hasn’t even reached its third birthday. It’s likely that Steve Jobs will announce the news tomorrow morning, at WWDC’s keynote presentation.
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iPad 2 is the only iDevice left with no jailbreak available yet and as the Jailbreak community seem rushed to figure out a rigid exploit, one of them, Stefan Esser a.k.a @i0n1c, a well known security guy among the jailbreak team, has recently thrown the word “Elevat0r†and began to tease a series of tweets since a month ago and apparently this is an iPad 2 jailbreak exploit. Stefan Esser has successfully found an exploit in iOS 4.3.1 which once again used in subsequent iOS 4.3.2 and iOS 4.3.3.
To tie the loosing ends, a new website elevat0r.com has surfaced and, interestingly, it says:
“Is an elevator arriving soon?
This website is dedicated to all those iPad 2 that are waiting for an elevator…
If your iPad 2 is waiting for an elevator don’t hesitate to share a photo of it with the rest of the world.â€
And for more ambiguity they put another statement at the bottom which read:
“This website is not about an iPad 2 jailbreak, it is about photos of waiting iPad 2 only.â€
The website is full of iPad 2 images showing a real elevator and it seems Stefan is waiting for 1000 images to be submitted before he reveals the expected jailbreak. He tweeted:
Wonder how many days it will take to get 1000 submissions for http://elevat0r.com
Do you think that Elevat0r is the upcoming iPad 2 jailbreak/exploit?
Developer Peter Hajas has done amazing notification tweak for iOS devices MobileNotifier available in Cydia . The new tweak has soon evolved into a viable notification alternative.
Recently, out of nowhere, Peter blogged about his departure from MobileNotifier, He said he was taking a break from MobileNotifier effective immediately and couldn’t mention why he was leaving:
I’m taking a break from MobileNotifier and Widge for a while. I have other opportunities and priorities currently. I won’t be able to do much (if any) work on the projects, and I won’t have time to respond to many Tweets or emails. The project is in capable hands, with Kyle Adams, Tim Novinger and others (like Marc Easen) keeping things going. This is definitely not goodbye.
I can’t say why, but it’s worth it. Trust me. If you look around hard enough, you’ll probably figure it out.
I hope you guys understand, and I look forward to bringing you more awesome, great, free open source software in the future. Stay tuned for some amazing things!
If you absolutely must get in touch with me, send me an email.
Until then, stay hungry and stay foolish.
Now, the interesting part of Peter’s post was the cryptic line about why he can’t say why he’s stopping work on MobileNotifier, but if we look around we’ll figure it out. Now, here’s the fun part.
Steve Jobs’ speech at Standford, where he refers to the farewell message in the last edition of Whole Earth Catalogue, that read:
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
By watching the historic video above, around 13:50, this apparently leaves us to think that he was hired by Apple actually.
Later, the guys at RedmondPie was able to dig up an old deleted tweet by Hajas, that stated he was “off to work in CA at a ‘fruit’ companyâ€.
@brittaahh I’m glad you like it! I’ll see what I can do 🙂 I will be back for a few weeks, then I’m off to work in CA at a “fruit†company.
More evidence kept rolling up as finally, Peter’s Facebook had been updated to show his current employment status as an “intern†with Apple Inc. as noticed by CrunchGear
Peter’s hard work does pay off and got him noticed by Apple, well done.
[Thanks iphoneincanada]
The folks at funkyspacemonkey claims that they’ve got their hands on supposedly the login Page for the upcoming iCloud service by Apple and directly from Apple’s internal server. Among all the rumors flourishing around, we heard the service will initially be free for a trial period then eventually $25 per year subscription. Do you think this leaked Login page is any genuine?!
We should wait for June 6 when WWDC kicks off to figure out.