In the last few days I’ve added a Kaleidoscope program to the iPhone (shown in the screencap above).  It – well – makes kaleidoscope shapes as you move and tilt the iPhone.  I’ve also installed a simple ‘talking’ clock app – that displays the time quite plainly in a digital clock style and speaks the […]
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Very Little Happening for Jailbreak / Installer Apps Just Lately

Jun 18th 2008 by

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In the last few days I’ve added a Kaleidoscope program to the iPhone (shown in the screencap above).  It – well – makes kaleidoscope shapes as you move and tilt the iPhone.  I’ve also installed a simple ‘talking’ clock app – that displays the time quite plainly in a digital clock style and speaks the time out when you tap the screen.

A third program I’ve looked at over recent days is called CatchPhrase, and it tracks – you guessed it – catchy phrases that you hear friends and others using.

Each of these apps does a perfectly good job at doing pretty simple things as far as I can see – nothing wrong with ’em at all.  But … I have to say I’m not mentioning them because any or all of them knocked my socks off …

I am mentioning these to provide a little flavor for how quiet things have been on the iPhone jailbreak apps front over the last few days.  Very, very quiet it seems to me.

For around the last 5-6 days I just haven’t been seeing the voluCatchPhrase2me of new apps that you often see in Installer, or anywhere near as many substantial or eye-catching new programs coming along.

This may be nothing, just a little lull as there sometimes is, with no particular  reasons behind it.  I’ve often noticed a little quiet patch and then seen a rapid flurry of activity over a weekend or similar that heats things up again in a flash.

I am wondering a little this time thought whether any of the lull has to do with the upcoming 2.0 software and impending iPhone App Store launch.  Whether there are a large number of jailbreak developers who are currently shifting their attention further towards ‘crossover’ apps and much less towards jailbreak creations.

I’d love to hear from any devs out there who care to share.  Are you all still working hard on both jailbreak and crossover stuff, sticking just to jailbreak due to App Store rules and constraints, taking a well-deserved break after recent months of activity …

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