Geohot To Pull Out From iPhone Jailbreak And Unlock Development Scene

Recently, George Hotz (aka Geohot), the iPhone hacking expert who previously released the proper jailbreaking and unlocking tools like blackra1n and blacksn0w broke his silence a few days back to announce that he had jailbroken the iPhone 4. He did mention that he didn't plan to release tools to jailbreak the iPhone 4 which resulted in angry reactions from iPhone users. The news was released with a published photo of an iPhone 4 running Cydia to "prove" that he had jailbroken Apple's newest addition to the iPhone family. Today, Geohot updated the post in reaction to the angry comments that he received to his blog post stating that he is probably not going to release the tool and may quit the scene. Here is what his post said exactly:

Sorry, this post was probably a bad idea. Next time I won't say anything. I miss when this blog was actually about technical things (I've been reacting too much to the feedback, which led it to the place it's in now). I didn't fully realize most of the current scene don't care unless they are getting something. Now I do. It's late tonight, I'll think about what to do about this in the morning.

The real reason behind no release isn't technical. It's just that it will never stop, after blackra1n, people demand unlock, after blacksn0w, people demand untethered. I miss the days when jailbreaking and unlocking were difficult, it attracted a much higher caliber crowd.

Also, to the haters, the picture is quite obviously fake :D

It is very disappointing to see Geohot abandoning the iPhone jailbreaking and unlocking scene as he has been an asset to the jailbreak community from the very start. He was the first guy to unlock the original iPhone in 2007 and the first to jailbreak iPhone 3GS and to release tools like blackra1n and blacksn0w to jailbreak and unlock the iPhone 3GS for iPhone OS 3.1.2. We are sure that he will be missed by many if he was to decide to leave the scene.

For those of you still waiting for the jailbreak for iOS 4 for iPhone 4, looks like you will have to wait for Comex to release a userland jailbreak tool, much like Spirit (which is said to be coming out "soon.") As usual, stay tuned for more jailbreak and unlocking news and info by following us on Twitter and/or subscribing to our RSS feeds.