iPhone 3rd Party App Developers looking to new exploit to run their apps

You can read about the exploit at Red-Rome Developer

With the news of the new exploit on the iPhone, it may have become possible to run 3rd Party Apps on the iPhone. The conditions and code of the exploit are still secret, but the implications are not.

1. It was shown that 3rd Party Code can be run on the iPhone, whether this was run inside the Safari "shell" is not known, but code was run that was able access parts of the phone that cannot be accessed by normal javascript.

2. The code was able to also run other programs, which was demonstrated by the sending of text messages.

3. Can the exploit change files on the iPhone or just read data? This is not known, but if it can, then it opens the door to installing files and placing application icons on the home menu.

4. Can the exploit access advanced graphics, the mic, camera, speaker, etc? Also not known, but would be very useful for VOIP apps and Games.

In Conclusion, we still don't know a lot, but what we do know is that 3rd party apps are at least possible, and I truly believe that it is only a matter of time before they will be commonplace on the iPhone. Apple should take the lead and release an SDK, but I don't think they will. Whether this turns out to be a smart move or not, only time will tell.