Cyril, better known as Pod2G in the Jailbreaking community, shared some interesting information at JailbreakCon 2012 about his thoughts on the future Jailbreaking. Something surprising that he brought up is that he thought Jailbreaking had an expiry date. What he meant by this is that as Apple is making Jailbreaking harder and hard in every iteration of iOS, eventually there would be no injection vector and Jailbreaking would cease to exist.
One could definitely argue against this, and point to the fact that as iOS was made by humans, there always has to be some sort of injection vector. The problem is however, Jailbreaking iOS has become one of the hardest platforms to exploit to date. Pod2G said himself, that he is only aware of a handful of people throughout the world who actually have the knowledge and expertise to exploit iOS. As such he said unless the Jailbreaking community sees some more developers, it is just going to become something that eventually fades away.
We can already see the effect of not having enough developers in the Jailbreaking community starting to take effect with the iOS 6 and iPhone 5 Untethered Jailbreak.
A reliable source of information in the Jailbreaking community, @Veeence took to Twitter recently to share some information on the current state of the Jailbreak. Essentially he shared information we already knew, but he did help clarify some details (read from the bottom up).
The iOS 6 and iPhone 5 Untethered Jailbreak will likely take the longest to see the light of day because Apple has increased security measures and there aren’t as many people working on Jailbreaks as there once was. Hopefully with events like JailbreakCon and Jailbreak devs presenting at conferences like HITB, it will help attract new figures to the Jailbreaking community. Otherwise Jailbreaking could cease to exist, or at the minimum take much longer than it has in the past to add support for new firmwares.
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