The iPhone Dev Team have already cracked the beta version of the iPhone 2.0 software. Available as part of the SDK download released by Apple a week ago, the 2.0 operating system won't go public until the summer, but that hasn't slowed down the hackers, who managed to grab a copy of the actual firmware (the official download only contains an emulator).
Apparently, this time it's final. Previous hacks have been tied to a specific version of the iPhone OS, meaning that the hackers were playing a cat-and-mouse game with Apple: the cracks, jailbreaks and unlocks were broken with each new update.
This latest crack actually bypasses the iPhone bootloader (the software which loads the OS when a computer is switched on) and allows unsigned code to be written to and run on the iPhone. Think of it as like finding the keys to a house, and the owner can't change the locks.
This is great news. It means that while iPhone owners will get all the sweet goodness of the new, official applications, they can continue to run any other software they like.
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