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iPad jailbroken already

It's just over 24 hours and Apple's over-hyped tablet has already been jailbroken.

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MexicanAppleThief5870d ago

Well lets not kid ourselves here, hardware was nothing special. It's just a larger itouch...

Icyhot5870d ago

Maybe some people just want a BIG IPOD TOUCH... Besides, I was waiting for the thing to be jailbroken, but wasn't expecting results on day 1!!! It will take sometime for the hacker community to release a stable version, but I know it will be real fast.

A Jailbroken IPod Touch is so awesome, I can multi-task, watch some flash content, play GBA Roms, Play different formats.... It basically kills all the flaws the device has which is great. A Jailbroken iPad can solve most of the problems (prime 1 being multitasking).

mrv3215870d ago

Does it fix the fact that a netbook is probably better? Just run Windows XP on it with touch screen interface or something... that'd be cool.

MexicanAppleThief5870d ago (Edited 5870d ago )

That sounds great to be honest, but I'd wait to buy one if I were you. Apple always hold out on features for their first generation products. I'll be waiting until 2nd/3rd genreation of iPad, I'm in no hurry. :)

jmare5870d ago

It has little to do with the hardware. It has been hacked day 1 because it is running a modified IPhone OS. The IPhone crack can easily be applied to the IPad with minimal effort.

Danteh5870d ago (Edited 5870d ago )

yay Jailbreak is win

Oh and since I see I'm the only iPad fanboy around here (sort of :P), I'll say it again:

iPad>Notebook (full tactile and weightless)
iPad>iPhone and iPod (bigger screen = a whole new world of features)

lols yea

mrv3215870d ago

A 16GB iPAD is $500... that's the base model, are you seriously justifying this? $500 for what is effectively a 16gb ipod.

BulletToothtony5870d ago (Edited 5870d ago )

$500 is not that much now a days.. i spend over $200 a month just in beer, i understand that you may be young or may not have a job or whatever but apple products IMO are good, specially for their software..

are they overpriced.. YES but nobody is forcing you to buy them.. i'm tired of people rushing to apple news to bash apple.. if you don't like the company that's fine but what's the need to bash them.

I'll be buying one like a year from now. because i find the idea of watching tv on my bed or browsing the net or streaming movies great. If they were able to sell almost 1 million of them in one weekend trust me, it's because apple is doing something right.. you should try OS-X sometime and you'd know what i'm talking about.

mrv3215870d ago

But 1 iPad=2.5 months of beer.

$500 is a lot, for what it does, without Jailbreaking, I use pounds not dollars so to directly compare is difficult but I think for most people $500 is a lot for what it does, after all one could buy a PS3 and 360 for less(the TWO of them) when you look at it that way it's not the cheapest.

Prototype5870d ago

I personally can't justify spending money on an over sized iphone when I can spend LESS on a better notebook.

And it's hacked? Apple needs to step their game up a bit more...

hakis865870d ago

"MexicanAppleThief - 4 hours ago

Well lets not kid ourselves here, hardware was nothing special. It's just a larger itouch...
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LOL at the disagree.
Really?

Icyhot5870d ago

@MexicaApple... Yup, I will wait for them till next year to release an upgraded version of it.. Buying Apple products in the 1st iteration=Biggest mistake you will make.

I am just looking for something that is handy since my iPod Touch will be 4 years old this year, so I will probably look out on something and the truth is this thing is tempting. Besides, I read a lot of books and that is another feature that pulls me towards it. A Kindle would hit me at something around 280-300$ in my country, so I'd rather spend 200 more (next year, hopefully the price per GB ratio decreases) and get this. There is no arguing that this will be the best eBook reader in the market.

@MRV123... I respect your opinion in fact I agree with the price debate. So hoping that it comes down in a years time. But I would rather pick up this in favor of a netbook. I already have a laptop for my needs, but it's bulky and so I would rather have something thats stylish and also well supported by the company and also the hacker community. If there is 1 thing you are sure with Apple products is the support their device gets.. I am using an iPod Touch for the past 4 years and I still prefer it over my HTC phone in terms of the apps.

Christopher5870d ago

Honestly, is this really newsworthy anymore? Every single electronic device gets hacked/jailbroken only a few days after release nowadays, no matter what it is.

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RonyDean5870d ago

That is amazing, its been out for 1 day and they already have it hacked... Guess I can buy mine now! ; )

Speed-Racer5870d ago

It would still be crap... need to with for the 2nd/3rd gen... the iPad 5GS etc hahaha

Speed-Racer5870d ago

Nothing special here I guess. With old OS software, all they needed to do was port their hacks.

SalvatoreLeone5870d ago

Apple cant protect s*** to save their lives

mrv3215870d ago

If only ipod can be as secure as the Mac virys wise. I heard the stupidest thing yesterday. Some guy told me 'The mac has no viryses and the one virys on the system is owned by the government.'

Is Jailbreaking legal or not? I'm curious more than anything.

Noctis Aftermath5870d ago (Edited 5870d ago )

I'm not to sure about the jailbreaking thing, i heard somewhere that it voids your warranty and that's about it.

mrv3215870d ago

Ah ok, I'm curious because it's not really different from installing linux on a PC.

Speed-Racer5870d ago

Its not illegal...it just voids ur warranty... and wont work with the app store if u try to update it.

mrv3215870d ago

Isn't there a free app store?

Speed-Racer5870d ago

not all apps are free, most of the decent ones you gotta pay for...plus games and so on... the jailbreak unlocks allow u to run apps without having to buy them...cause u can dl them illegally and play them...

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"It's Just So Lame" - RTGI Modder Thinks DLSS 5 Is Impressive But Shares AI Slop Sentiment

Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.

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CrimsonWing6935d ago

I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.

isarai_lee35d ago (Edited 35d ago )

It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good

blacktiger35d ago

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.

Chard35d ago

Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether

theshizer35d ago

If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.

isarai_lee35d ago

And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?

blacktiger35d ago

You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.

Andrew33635d ago

Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet

Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet

isarai_lee35d ago

Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install

VS

The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.

Not at all the same but nice try

jwillj2k435d ago

At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.

Andrew33635d ago

The good news is you can just not use it as well.

Christopher35d ago

It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.

Urrakia3435d ago

All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"

I think we all know how that ended up.

Popsicle35d ago (Edited 35d ago )

I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.

DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.

blacktiger35d ago

Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!