The jailbreak is not going through its best moment, despite the fact that we already have a tool available to perform it on the iPhone 12 in most versions of iOS 14. However, there was a time when it was the only way to install third-party software on the iPhone, some months before Apple introduced the App Store with the second version of its system, iPhone OS 2.0 at that time.
Steve Jobs, and Apple in general, did not like the jailbreak and the alternative store Cydia, however, an important member of the iOS team advised Pandora to jailbreak the iPhone to create an app.
Pandora is an online music and radio service, and I wanted to be on the iPhone yes or yes. The problem was that Steve Jobs didn’t want apps to be installed on the iPhone, he wanted web apps to be used.
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In a new interview in Vice, Pandora executives have revealed that none other than Scott Forstall suggested that they should use jailbroken iPhones to develop an iOS app before the arrival of the App Store and an official SDK for iPhone.
Scott Forstall was one of the most important people in the creation of iOS, is so relevant to Apple’s history that even Epic Games wants you to testify in their trial against Apple and the App Store.
“What, if anything, can we do in Pandora to prepare for the next generation of iPhone that will include a native API and app store?” asked Conrad to Forstall
Surprisingly, Forstall told the Pandora development team they should use jailbroken iPhone to build an iOS app before the launch of the App Store. Apple did not have an SDK for iOS at the time and there were no formal plans to advertise the App Store.
“Forstall said it wouldn’t be a waste of time to jailbreak some iPhones and use the kind of toolkits that were being distributed by other people to build a native Pandora application while we developed something more formal at Apple.”
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This statement is quite curious. It seems that Apple created some initial tools very similar to those used to create applications for Cydia, so it would be easy to port these apps later to the App Store.
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