Jailbreak hardware

[eddkahn]

Are there any hardware accessories made for a jailbroken iDevice.
Would be kinda cool.

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[f4780y]

What kind of stuff are you thinking about?

The trouble with making specific hardware is that there is no guarantee the a device can be jailbroken and can stay jailbroken. You can imagine all the returns a hardware manufacturer would get because people "accidentally" upgraded their device to a non-jailbreakable version of IOS. It could also make support quite tricky.

Hardware generally only becomes cost effective at volume, therefore you would need to shift a lot of units and keep the momentum up for it to be reasonably profitable. Jailbreaking is very popular, but I'm not sure there is a killer peripheral which enough people would buy...

A more typical usage scenario is for jailbreaking to enable the use of hardware which is not supported by the iPad. For example, I use my Apple Magic Trackpad quite nicely thanks to JB bluetooth mouse drivers.

Interested to hear what kind of hardware you are envisaging.
Cheers.