iPhone kiosk

Mark Wilcox mark at sorcery-ltd.co.uk
Tue Aug 26 04:42:39 EDT 2014


Obviously I don't know the details but if you're going to run in a
single app mode, then complete control of the phone while your app is
running is possible without a jailbreak - it's just control whilst in
Springboard and other people's apps you need to jailbreak for.

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

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014, at 02:49 PM, Richard Miller wrote:
> The hardware device controls an iPhone remotely through bluetooth... not 
> a process Apple supports. This isn't a game controller. It is complete 
> control of the phone.
> 
> 
> On 8/25/14, 5:26 PM, Mark Wilcox wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> 
> 
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