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Absinthe jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 installed a million times in three days

By on January 24, 2012 at 9:06am in Mobile News


The numbers are pretty staggering, but not unexpected. The potent combination of an untethered jailbreak for Apple’s latest and greatest iDevices has managed to earn the dubious distinction of being downloaded over one million times in three days.

Because Cydia is the hub by which all jailbreakers go to install their wares, Saurik, the man behind the alternative app store, sent out some download numbers: 491,325 on iPhone 4S,  308,967 on iPad 2 and 152,940 on previously-Jailbroken iPad 2′s with iOS 4.

While many people think that the point of jailbreaking is to download illegal apps, there are so many other legitimate ways to take advantage of having root access to your iDevice. Apps like BiteSMS, Infinidock, Infinifolders, IntelliscreenX and SBSettings are just a few of the awesome ways to enhance your iOS experience.

Source: 9to5Mac

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13 comments for “Absinthe jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 installed a million times in three days”

  1. Yeah but the majority of installers just want to be pirates.

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    Posted by Dylan K | January 24, 2012, 9:50 am
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    • How do you figure that? If I said “The majority of them want to be ninja’s when they grow up” it has more validity than your comment.

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      Posted by Stephen Elsker | January 24, 2012, 10:25 am

    • I didn’t know this was a ‘pirates vs. ninjas’ debate. The vast majority of iPhone users that I know that jailbreak their iPhones do it for the ‘free’ paid apps. Essentially stealing.

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      Posted by Dylan K | January 24, 2012, 12:50 pm

  2. The question is, which is better to enhance the phone? Jailbreaking or Rooting? I am excluding Dingle Berry of course.

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    Posted by EmperumanV | January 24, 2012, 9:54 am
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    • An unrooted, stock android is better than a jailbroken iphone.

      Does that answer your question?

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      Posted by Boojay | January 24, 2012, 10:45 am

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    Posted by ERIC_DERP | January 24, 2012, 10:24 am
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  4. @Boojau

    No, it’s easy to make comments. How about some reasoning behind it?

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    Posted by Rio | January 24, 2012, 11:54 am
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  5. Because 3mil people jailbroken their devices in 3 days means iPhone is king /s
    Maybe you meant that 3M people don’t find the iOS as perfect out of the box as Apple thinks it is – then you might have something.

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    Posted by zzZZzz | January 24, 2012, 11:58 am
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  6. @ZzZZzz that’s like saying everyone who roots/installs Roms doesn’t find Android to be that great out of the box either

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    Posted by Rio | January 24, 2012, 12:18 pm
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  7. jailbreaking..hmm i think i know a little about it.

    but what in the whole world is Rooting or Dingle Berry?

    @EMPERRUMANV

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    Posted by Aryana | January 24, 2012, 1:59 pm
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  8. You don’t jailbreak to download illegal apps, you jailbreak in order to do with the iphone what you can do with any android. A couple of examples, why should I have to jailbreak if I want to block callers? Why should I have to jailbreak in order to create a picture shortcut on my home screen to call somebody that DOESN’T go through the devs server. Little things like that that prove to me that the apple people are out of touch. There’s more examples. So apple, stuff your marketing, I want the freedom to do what I want with a phone that I buy, not what you want and how you want me to do it.

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    Posted by Domingo | January 24, 2012, 5:32 pm
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  9. yuuii8

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    Posted by ab | January 25, 2012, 3:26 pm
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