Question for you.. The version of OS3.1 that you have how did you get it? was it thru itunes 9 official upgrade from apple?? and if so what’s your baseband software version (aka modem firmware version)

SBSettings, LockScreen, 5 row dock, and all the other goodness of JB is too precious to me to pass up for a single damn app that I’ll stop using tomorrow. No thanks.

To Dev Team: STOP WASTING UR TIME ON THE 3GS JB! I sure as hell won’t be upgrading to that. There is always the online version of Dropbox, as another commenter has also mentioned.

Its already been done and should be on its way soon.

It is clear that Apple is going to punish the jailbreakers by slowly squeezing them out – having apps that can only be run on the latest version, for example, is an easy way for them to do this. They can reject an app from the store, ask the developer to make it 3.1 only, and continue the squeeze that way, along with incorporating their own anti-JB features in the new OS’s and hardware.

It’s too bad, because the real value of the jailbreak for a lot of folks is just theme-ing and SBSettings. I like being able to SSH into the phone to pull videos off, edit them, and load them back on to use with TweetREEL, but I can easily understand why Apple won’t ever let people do that without jailbreaking the phone. However, I also know that they will never let users make UI changes so we will probably never have SBSettings or Winterboard on the phone without the Jailbreak, which is a real shame since they are extremely useful, welcome additions that add a lot of functionality to the phone.

I would love Drop Box and several other apps, as well as the app-management in iTunes, but I use SBsettings 150 times a day so I will just have to wait it out. But I feel like the jailbreaking door will continue to close over the next couple of years.

Jailbreaking doesn’t hurt apple’s bottom line, the iphone is super popular, and sales are off the charts! granted the whole push fiasco was kind of a pain when 3.0 came out, but that was just because of that ridiculous activation thing from apple themselves. Though pirating apps is possible i don’t think thats why people do it, with the JB, there are a bunch of useful cydia apps, and themes and stuff, besides the app store is still profitable! I don’t see why apple has to be such asses about jailbreaking, because in fact if this phone isn’t jailbreakable in a month i’m selling it, and going back to a blackberry or a pre!

Secondly, the dev teams (chronic/iphone) are being uncooperative, I think it has more to do with ego than programming skills, first of all, how hard is it to just tweet “this is gonna take longer than expected” those guys tweet every 5 minutes! I can’t be mad since i don’t pay for any of their work but it would cut the flaming on their blog by half. and since 3.1.1 is coming soon, this seems like it would just start all over again once that comes out!

That is more than wierd – you should report that as a bug. The installation process should perform any compatibility checks before deleting the old application, not after the app is already lost. Though the amount of space taken is probably trivial, you probably have orphanned app data cluttering your phone’s HD now, as app data is typically not removed during an upgrade, but now you have no means of accessing it.

Good news for me is that the number of JB apps I need has dwindled as OS improvements have come — and I think it would be correct to argue that the JB has provided stimulous for this. There are still a few things I really miss though, especially status bar notifications. Apple really needsto address notification alert handling, but I think there are other drivers for this too.

I guess as the OS API opens more, I feel more ambivalent about JB. Applications that enable outright theivery (like installus) don’t help JB’s case, IMO.

I emptied my trash before noticing. Now I have no Yelp.

Can anyone email the previous version of Yelp (Yelp 3.0.x.ipa) to me at grendel@gmail.com? PLEASE?

Am I missing something?

I’m happy with the way things are.

Will wait for augmented reality apps.

I have noticed though – that one app (ShopShop I think) came up with a new version in iTunes; I said yes, not knowing that it needed 3.1. Then it failed to upgrade, saying that it needs 3.1, fair enough. But: it has removed the old version from my iPhone, even after failing to install the new one!! Weird

Haven’t seen any good apps to download since iDisk, so that’s not an issue either.

I’m sure 3.2 will be much more worthwhile.

The only reason I upgraded to 3.1 is for the voice command over BT. Is there any way to get this feature using 3.0 so I can have my jailbreak back?

@chrstphr.ross: if you read the title of this post, it’s referring to 3GS owners. and i have no idea how your case pertains to this discussion? so your JB 3G success story is irrelevant here. thanks though.

Not sure why, but I can not install it on my JB 3.0 3GS.

An no, it is not worth it to unJB.