10,000 Pageviews, Thanks to you!

We've opened in June! 7 months ago today, we had not even opened. Now, to do the math, not counting big days of news or increases, 1,428 pageviews happen a month. To get to 26,000, by this average, it will take 11 months before we can reach the goal, now with your help, we could be building a base sooner than we think!

Today, Fitzsimmons Weekly passed the 10,000 view mark. Thank you to everyone who has helped get this developing source to where it is today. Although 10,000 may seem like a small number for views, we hope soon to pass 26,000 views within the next 8 or 9 months. On December 22nd, 823 pageviews happened. Almost 1/10th of the total ammount! Almost 200 pageviews have happened today alone, with a fairly small ammount of updates so far. Thank you all for the support! If we get to that golden number, we can find sponsors and build a sales base to fund the site.

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Cydia 1.1.9 released for iOS 7

    Cydia has been updated with a new interface and compatibility fixes for iOS 7, although the new edition of Cydia is still compatible with iOS 2 and above. Evasi0n7 released with an unofficial version of Cydia and hadn't updated MobileSubstrate, so Cydia has been updated for compatibility, but MobileSubstrate is continued to be worked on.

Cydia is updated, Mobile Substrate is in the works, and awesome developers like Ryan Petrich are finishing iOS 7 updates to their tweaks and apps. All again feels a bit normal in the world when it comes to jailbreaking.

from iDownloadBlog

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YouTube for iOS 7 leaked

   Quick Update: On Google's holiday apps page, which you can see here, Google seemed to have leaked a new YouTube app for the iPad and iPhone.

  Update: The update for iPad and iPhone has been released with he following screenshot being accurate.

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Evad3rs Suspends Taig Install in China [UPDATE]

The Evad3rs have suspended their partner company with evasi0n7. In China, a 3rd party appstore was installed that seemed to allow/encourage piracy in the app, although the deal with the Evad3rs is said to be signed under the conditions of no-piracy laws that are acceptable in China. Taig's site has been changed to a site with a message stating "Welcome to nginx!" in an html form.

(December 24th, 2013) Update: The website is back to its previous form although the suspension continues

(December 27th, 2013) 2nd Update: The website now reads "Coming soon..."

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Evasi0n Jailbreak: Now or never?

   Evasi0n came out earlier today, and malware rumors have already began to swirl. A Chinese company named Taig has partnered with the Evad3rs and bundled their app store with the jailbreak. Just a moment ago, the Evad3rs posted an update on Evasi0n7. They explain the contact and how Taig had agreed to not allow piracy to cut back on the store in China. Still, the application can pirate in the jailbreak.

On http://evasi0n.com/l.html, they share the reasoning behind the thinking and explain the story of the agreement.

Dear Jailbreak Community,
We are deeply troubled by the rumors and speculation surrounding our iOS 7 jailbreak. We would like to present the whole story to you.
Most of the concern surrounds the inclusion of the Chinese App Store Taig. In the course of developing the iOS 7 jailbreak, we were approached by the company with an offer of partnership in offering Taig bundled with the jailbreak in China. Taig is a Chinese App Store written in Chinese. tailored and, we believe, well suited to meet the needs of users for the Chinese market. Users are not locked into Taig. Cydia can also be installed and Taig removed afterwards. It would be deeply hypocritical to remove choice from the user in the course of jailbreaking.
Taig has never asked us to disclose our exploits to them, let alone sell them. We were simply asked to bundle their third-party app store in China in a similar way we bundle and distribute Cydia around the world as an additional App Store, and in a similar way to how previous jailbreaks like blackra1n have bundled non-Cydia stores.
Of course, the safety and security of our users is a paramount concern, and due to the amount of close scrutiny by security professionals around the world, we offer one of the lower risk programs available for download on the Internet. We are saddened by the accusations that we would ever do such a thing, or sell weaponized exploits. If anyone ever attempted to include malware in a jailbreak, we are confident that the many security experts combing through jailbreak software would find it. The binaries are obfuscated for a similar reason to why we have in the past compiled in Cydia rather than including it as a separate file. We wish to secure the integrity of the jailbreak and discourage its use by third parties who may in fact wish to weaponize it. The obfuscation is of course not intended to deflect serious analysis by security professionals (who have quickly already fully analyzed and discussed the contents of the jailbreak), it is simply intended to prevent easy repackaging by other parties.
Preventing piracy is also extremely important to us. We are deeply sorry and embarrassed about the piracy that was seen today. All of us have spoken out vehemently against piracy in the past. We don’t believe it’s right for developers to not get paid for their work. In our agreement with Taig, we contractually bind them to not have piracy in their store. This was an extremely important precondition of working with them. In entering the agreement with them, we had hoped and continue to hope that our cooperation with Taig will improve the piracy situation in China. Many App Stores within China, including those run by large corporations, have many issues with pirated software. Promoting an app store that is required not to have piracy with our jailbreak, we believe, will help developers.
We are very upset that despite our agreement and review by their team, piracy was found in the store. It was not acceptable and they have been strenuously working to resolve the problem in good faith, and have removed all instances of it that we have brought to their attention. We are happy that it was not overlooked by the community. We’ve been so heads down working on the code that we didn’t see this. We are sorry. We will continue to monitor this issue and work to resolve it completely. Taig will be pulled from the jailbreak if it cannot be resolved.
Many of you have also wondered why this jailbreak was released without Cydia and MobileSubstrate being updated for iOS 7. After we received the offer from Taig, we informed Saurik, our friend, of our decision to accept the offer. SaurikIT had been in talks with Chinese companies regarding potential partnerships, made a counteroffer. We believe they share our views on how a relationship with companies in China currently utilizing jailbreaking might benefit everyone in the community. Unfortunately, the negotiations did not work out. A few days later, we received information that SaurikIT was working with another group to release a jailbreak ahead of us. We decided to release, knowing that Cydia, MobileSubstrate, and jailbreak tweaks would be updated after a few days, just as it always has in the course of jailbreaking.
Yes, we have benefitted financially from our work, just as many others in the jailbreak community have, including tweak developers, repo owners, etc. Any jailbreak from us will always be free to the users but we believe we have a right to be compensated in an ethical way, just as any other developer. However, the interests of the community will always be the most important thing to us. When releasing the jailbreak, we pledged all our donations to foundations supporting the interests of the community. We are deeply upset at how we have inadvertently distressed the community and we are focused on fixing it.
We love the jailbreak community and you motivate us to do this work. Having a choice and freeing your device is important.
We hope you understand and we thank you for all of your support.
evad3rs

www.taig.com

   That being said, Jay, creater of Cydia, or Saurik, has plans of releasing a full-fledged iOS 7 supported jailbreak with an updated Cydia, MobileSubstrate, and may be done soon. As of now, a jailbreak shouldn't be on an everyday device, and as far as I know, the tweaks are broken and most apps don't function or crash. For any one of my devices beside my iPod Touch, I know that a jailbreak won't be happening until the Taig malware scandal or other issues and tweaks are worked out. I will be updating the jailbreak scene as the story continues to develop.

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Evad3rs release iOS 7 Jailbreak

Another Quick Update: For everyone on the jailbreak scene, an untethered iOS 7.0.4 jailbreak has been released and seems to be packaged with some form of malware, be careful if you use it.

Download: http://evasi0n.com/

We have a winner: https://isios7jailbrokenyet.com/

Merry Christmas! The iOS 7 jailbreak has been released at http://t.co/wblOSKyLah! All donations will go to @publicknowledge, @eff and @ffii
— evad3rs (@evad3rs) December 22, 2013

This post was updated to include information on the current issues with the Jailbreak at 4:28 PM CT

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Merry Christmas from Google

   Quick update: As of today, or possibly a few days before, Google now has a Christmas themed search when you search any one of a few holiday words.

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iPad Mini with Retina Display Review

   On December 17, I switched my iPad Mini for an iPad Mini with Retina display, and it has proven to be a stable product. The product comes with A7 and M7 processors, a retina display, and a 10-hour battery. I've been using my device for a while, and it hasn't died once. I have charged it about every 2 days and the battery seems to be going down a percent every 3 or 4 minutes. Basically, about 7 hours for a charge means plenty of time for games. The best part of the device is probably the features with the display, as in speed tests their isn't much difference between the A5 and A7 internals, at least as far as tested with an iPod Touch 5th Generation.

   If I would have to rate it among other tablets, I give it a 9.5/10.

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Superhot, the game based on movement

If you are like me and haven't heard about the Unity game, SUPERHOT, that you should see it now online for free before Steam gets its hands on it. (read about the Greenlight here) The game revolves around you running through the blank world of crime and control time with your movement. The game seems to be preparing a release on Steam and should be back soon. The game is mostly shooting and puzzle, and I highly recommend a look at it now.

Check it out: http://superhotgame.com/

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SNES Advance Concept

Nintendo could be ahead of the curve, but why not look behind for a minute. The Gameboy Advance is an amazing console, but lacked actually advanced hardware besides its back lit display. Now that it is almost 2014, Nintendo should build their own "flashback console", as Atari and Sega have done. Sega's "Classic Game Console" functions with actual cartridges, and that wouldn't be a bad idea to catch on to.

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Wii U Portable Concept

Above, I've mashed together a concept of a next-gen DS device. It features the 3D detail at the top, but isn't controlled in the same area. It has dual-control pads, a 4-button analog piece, and A B X Y buttons, with a power switch below. It is a similar to the 3DS XL, using every element of a Blue 3DS XL. The device allows more connectivity with other users, but sports a larger exterior and less battery than a 3DS XL, and plays 3DS and DS Games. The U would be downloaded from the internet and streams the second screens content to the lower part of the screen. Shown above is my larger edition, while a smaller (poorly edited) edition shown on the right.

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Tearaway: Why the PS Vita makes sense

If you haven't seen Tearaway, the game-to-have for the PS Vita, it was only released on the 22nd of November. It is one of the few games that completely utilize almost every feature of the Vita (if not every feature). You control the on-screen characters, in two ways. You use your fingers to manipulate the enviroment and then you move the character around the obstacles, trying to complete tasks. This may be the groundbreaking game to take the PS Vita back to the top (or to the top, the 3DS has done well). The hardware has aged, but so have the games. With the Vita being a good accessory to the PS4, I wouldn't find anything wrong with the marketing of some new games.

A PS Vita paired to a PS4

So, how will Tearaway fix the PS Vita in the market, and if it does, will the PS4 have any play in the sales?

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Project Ara in 2014

Will Motorola's new Project Ara phone be announced for release in 2014? Talk about the new phone began when a start-up called Phone Bloks teamed with Motorola after finding the phone couldn't be developed on their own. Looking back on the project, it has come to almost create one of the first renewable phones, so your two-year contract might not look as bad. Parts like memory cards, plugs, cameras, sensors, etc. What I would look for is 3rd party accesories for the phone, such as bigger receivers, or female USB pieces for external hardware. How will this project play out? We hope to reveal it later in 2014.

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LG G Flex Announced

The LG G Flex is a G2 with a curve, sharing the same 13 megapixel camera, Snapdragon 800 processor, and 2GB of RAM. The 6 inch OLED display works well with the curve, but the 720p takes the phone down the lower-end display path, although being almost entirely what it is marketed on. Besides these details, the phone has a scratch-proof back (that "self-heals") and IR Blaster combined with an over done software improvement library and notification LED, full-back button control, and 32GB internal storage. We'll be getting some more updates soon.

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