The new Apple TV announcement was disappointingly lacking in apps after all the rumours that we’d be getting an app-happy iOS Apple TV. But delving into the new iOS 4.2 beta seems to suggest that it will come packing full fat iOS and opens up the possibility of an Apple TV jailbreak. Hackers get cracking, we want our new Apple TV apps…
An iPhone developer was poring over the USB device configuration list in the iOS 4.2 beta and spotted the familiar iProd listing. But instead of the internal codename referring to the iPad as it once did, it now appears to be related to the new Apple TV. That’s very intriguing indeed.
During new Apple TV demonstrations at the Apple event, it became clear that is doesn’t run Springboard, the application that runs the homescreen on the iPhone. But with iOS on board, developers reckon a new Apple TV jailbreak is a very real possibility.
Just what a new Apple TV jailbreak would allow is up in the air though. Apple says the device will just handle media streaming which could mean there’s simply not enough power or space for custom apps. How any new Apple TV jailbreak would handle the Apple remote is also a bit of quandary.
The new Apple TV is shipping at the end of this month. We’ve seen the current version hacked and modded with impunity so should hopefully see some interesting tweaks from the irrepressible hacking community.
Is the lack of apps on the new Apple TV bumming you out? Or is the £99 streaming machine good enough as it is?
Out late September | £99 | Apple (via TUAW)
