iPhone kiosk

[Mark Wilcox]

I'm no jailbreaking expert but as I understood it, the issue is not that
you can't get new versions of iOS quickly but that you can't install
older firmware to a device unless you have already jailbroken it. You
can't overwrite legitimate firmware with anything but newer legitimate
firmware because the firmware itself includes version and signature
checking.

What's so special about this custom hardware that the device needs to be
jailbroken? Why can't it go down the MFi route?

-- 
  Mark Wilcox
  mark at sorcery-ltd.co.uk

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Richard Miller wrote:
> Jailbreaking is a pain, but I see no way around it. We use a custom 
> hardware add-on that can only communicate to the iPhone if it is 
> jailbroken.
> 
> As far as jailbreaking new devices is concerned, the idea is to maintain 
> a cloned image of an earlier jailbroken device and then restore that 
> image to all new iPhones... overwriting any new OS upgrades it may have 
> shipped with.
> 
> We're not concerned about having access to typical new iOS upgrades. If 
> a new OS comes out that has a significant new feature in it for us, we'd 
> have to wait to use that feature until a jailbreak was available. But 
> that wait doesn't effect our ongoing business.
> 
> Richard
> 
>