AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken

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by ssclafani • 16 years ago

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mortenjorck• 16 years ago

A final word from Strafach: “The most interesting thing about the new AppleTV OS is that all binaries are marked iPad-compatible. I do wonder what Apple is planning…”

Curious indeed.

danfitch• 16 years ago

I bet they want to have almost anything that is possible on the AppleTV be possible on the iPad, but not the other way around.

dbrannan2• 16 years ago

I don't see how you could run apps on an AppleTV with no touch interface, different screen resolution, and no HD space. Am I missing something?

thought_alarm2• 16 years ago

I guess once there's a Jailbroken version of iOS 4.2 for iPad we will be able to put that theory to the test.

napierzaza2• 16 years ago

It was already announced that it used the A4. So it would have been pretty crazy if it wasn't running a variant of iOS. But it's good news, I doubt there won't be an app store on it. But it is hard to tell how soon that will be. Maybe we'll have to just enjoy jailbroken apps first and then wait for Apple to announce the compatibility.

DaveF• 16 years ago

Hopefully they can take key parts of the atv ios build and port it to an app for jailbroken ipod touches/iphones. Have it run like front row for OS X. That way you would only need one device and you could play back local media.

ja27• 16 years ago

Doesn't this open the door to flashing the new AppleTV with an Android (or eventually even Debian) build?

houseabsolute• 16 years ago

Sure, but there are already a number of machines you can do that with. I'm sure there is some reason to do this, but I can't think of many good ones.

angusgr• 16 years ago

FWIW, Debian is probably even easier than Android (less specific hardware requirements.) However, AFAIK noone has developed a Linux kernel to run on Apple's A4 SoC, in either the iPad or AppleTV.

They would be a nifty cheap choice for a MythTV frontend (among other things), but AFAIK it would be quite significant development & reverse-engineering work for proper hardware support. As the other reply says, there are lots of similar options that run Linux (and presumably Android) right now.

AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken

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