Simplest iPhone/iPod Touch Jailbreak Ever: blackra1n

I love my iPhone and iPod Touch.  They’re terrific right out of the box, but spending $20-30 on a few productivity and travel apps have made them a nearly indispensable part of my daily workflow.  I’m one to never be satisfied though.  The geek in me recognized early on just how powerful the underlying technology is and the Texan in me got really pissed when Apple wouldn’t let me use it to its fullest potential.  Jailbreaking my devices has been the norm since two weeks after I purchased my first-gen iPod Touch.  The thought of some California vegan telling me how I can and can’t use my computer is enough to make me want to hack my devices even if jailbreaking had no other benefit whatsoever.  Shove the warranty if necessary, I just want to do things my way.  But I’m not here to discuss philosophies.

I’ve been playing the cat and mouse game with Cupertino since version 1.0 of the iPhone OS and never have I jailbroken any iPhone as easily and quickly as I did with blackra1n.  I was going to post instructions, but that is really a waste of time.  If you can click one button while your iPhone or iPod Touch is attached to either a Mac or Windows machine, you can jailbreak your device in about two seconds.  No big downloads, no time-consuming restores, just reboot your device and the blackra1n app is installed.  Tapping it gives you the opportunity to install Cydia, Icy, Rock and other app repositories of your choosing.  From there, its the wild west; freedom from Apple repression.  Sick it to the man!

I know, it’s a little melodramatic, but fun nevertheless.

So far I’ve used blackra1n to jailbreak my iPhone 3Gs, my iPod Touch 2G, iPod Touch 1G and my daughter’s iPhone 3G.  None were jailbroken at the time and all were running the 3.1.2 OS.  Now, all my idevices belong to me again.  By the way, I donated $25 for the great tool.  If you like it, you should too.