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Old 02-13-2008, 08:24 PM
Tinman
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Default Re: How many Smartphones can do this?

Larry wrote:
> "Tinman" <ask@for.it> wrote in
> news:61h0i9F1s6dfjU1@mid.individual.net:
>
>> Larry wrote:
>>> "Tinman" <ask@for.it> wrote in
>>> news:61grviF1uio3hU1@mid.individual.net:
>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycIjt-ykWRo
>>>
>>> The guitar is better:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74rv...eature=related
>>>

>>
>> Nah, I have both. Touch screen seems more suited to a keyboard
>> instrument.
>>
>> But people are impressed when I demo the guitar app--no doubt about
>> that.
>>
>>

>
> Did you see the news report about the teenager that has already hacked
> around Apple's latest, now unsuccessful, attempt at preventing
> jailbreaking it?


I watched it as it happened, he posted it all on his blog:
http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/

Nice kid, and very determined.


> iPhone users should be showering him with
> donations. There still are genius kids on the planet, in spite of
> government efforts to turn all their brains to mush so they can be
> controlled.
>
> I think it said he was 15 from The Netherlands.


He's 17 or 18 and in the USA. Yep, we can still turn them out!


--
Mike



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