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Developers from Chronic Dev Team and iPhone Dev Team released greenpois0n Absinthe (known as just "Absinthe") in January 2012, a desktop-based tool (for OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux [30]) to jailbreak the iPhone 4S for the first time and the iPad 2 for the second time, on iOS 5.0.1 for both devices and also iOS 5.0 for iPhone 4S.
JailbreakMe 2.0 "Star", released by comex on August 1, 2010, exploited a vulnerability in the FreeType library used while rendering PDF files. This was the first publicly available jailbreak for the iPhone 4, able to jailbreak iOS 3.1.2 through 4.0.1 on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad models then current. [7]
After Apple released iPhone OS 3.0 in June 2009, the Dev Team published redsn0w as a simple jailbreaking tool for Mac and Windows, and also updated PwnageTool primarily intended for expert users making custom firmware, and only for Mac. [47] It continues to maintain redsn0w for jailbreaking most versions of iOS 4 and iOS 5 on most devices. [48]
The iPad can be jailbroken on iOS versions 4.3 through 4.3.3 with the web-based tool JailbreakMe 3.0 (released in July 2011), [116] and on iOS versions including 5.0 and 5.0.1 using redsn0w. [117] Absinthe 2.0 was released on May 25, 2012, as the first jailbreak method for all iOS 5.1.1 devices except the 32 nm version of the iPad 2.
In the case of the iOS 9.2-9.3.3 and 64-bit 10.x jailbreaks, Safari-based exploits were available, thereby meaning websites could be used to re-jailbreak. In more detail: Each iOS device has a bootchain that tries to make sure only trusted/signed code is loaded.
[8] [9] Cingular gave Apple the liberty to develop the iPhone's hardware and software in-house, a rare practice at the time, [10] [11] and paid Apple a fraction of its monthly service revenue (until the iPhone 3G), [12] in exchange for four years of exclusive U.S. sales, until 2011.
It supported operating systems Windows 8 and OS X 10.10 and higher. [58] [207] [6] In 2023, WhatsApp replaced the Electron-based apps with native versions for their respective platforms. [208] [209] The Windows version is based on UWP while the Mac version is a port of the iOS version using Catalyst technology.
Windows RT is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft and released alongside Windows 8 on October 26, 2012. It is a version of Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 built for the 32-bit ARM architecture (ARMv7), [6] designed to take advantage of the architecture's power efficiency to allow for longer battery life, to use system-on-chip (SoC) designs to allow for thinner devices and to provide a ...