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For the sake of jailbreakers and certain Dev Teams, we should all hope this is false, but rumor has it that the new unibody aluminum MacBooks cannot recognize the DFU mode required to jailbreak current iPhones and iPod touches. Some users in iPhone and iPod touch forums are reporting that their new laptops will not detect their devices when in DFU mode, thus slamming the door in the face of the modified firmware that PwnageTool creates. What’s most likely happening is that a specific build of iTunes in the new MacBooks is blocking access to devices in DFU mode.
While it wasn’t uncommon for Apple to patch any holes that their iPhone firmwares had, this ushers in a whole new element of sneakiness from Apple’s part. If this does prove to be true, then it will require a lot of effort by hacking teams to figure out what the problem really is, and with luck, solve it. The upside is that Apple cannot push out new computers every time the dev team, or somebody else, cracks the iPhone or iPod touch firmware. This, however, may just be an isolated incident, which, hopefully, does not affect the masses. Either way, we should find out soon enough what the deal really is, and how it affects iPhone and iPod touch users.
Read [HowardForums] and [iPod touch fans] Via [Gizmodo]
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