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The end of Android could be approaching, suggests Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt. As noted by Forbes, McCourt estimates that Apple held a 59% grip on the smartphone market in the first quarter of 2012, compared to just 39% in the year-ago quarter. The iPhone continues to be a dominant force in the United States, with 4.3 million handsets activated on AT&T in the first quarter in addition to 3.2 million units on Verizon and 1.5 million units on Sprint in the same time period.

With the launch of the so-called “iPhone 5″ on the horizon, the momentum that Apple is experiencing is going to continue. McCourt believes that Google’s share of the smartphone market might have peaked, which means that it is likely to now continue declining. In his research note, McCourt says that Apple has “won the game,” at least in the American market, with the iPhone. Read on for his full opinion.

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Do you think that what McCourt is saying is true? Could the so-called “end of Android” really be approaching because of the iPhone’s dominance in the United States?

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Pod2g, who was instrumental in the 5.0.1 and A5 jailbreak, has issued an update on an untethered jailbreak of 5.1.

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He said last month that he only had a few pieces, so hearing they have all the exploits this is good news for jailbreaking 5.1. Hopefully it won't be too much longer!

Update:

Saurik has updated Winterboard, which is a popular wallpaper/icon/sound/theme modifier. Some of the updates are long overdue. It's free and thousands of themes in Cydia rely on it. You can create your own themes or modify existing ones. There's endless possibilities.

Here are the details on the update:

• 5.x Solve SpringBoard Scroll Lag (only with "SummerBoard Mode" off)
  
• Default SummerBoard Mode to Off
  
• 4+5: TimeStyle, PerPage, IconAlpha
  
• 4+5: WinterBoard.app Respring Fix
  
• 5.x: Last Ditch kill -KILL Respring
  
• 4+5: HTML Wallpaper Multi-Touch
  
• 2+3: Fixed SpringBoard Crashes
  
• Corrected Order of UISound Stack
  
• Use Fallback/* to Wildcard Theme

Rhysoid had started a thread basically asking who I was, so I figured now would be a good time to let you all know.

Logan has sold iHackMyi.com to a Toronto-based company called VerticalScope. I personally am not privy to the details as to the why or anything, just that he sold it. This was announced to the staff only 5 days ago, and I had requested that they keep hush about it until the right time. Rather than ask Logan to come to the forums to post this on his own, I will quote his post from the staff room that (somewhat) explains his decision.

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We here at VerticalScope bring with us staff and resources to make this site grow by leaps and bounds. We provide the resources necessary to run this site and maintain the day to day technical and managerial tasks that are too time-consuming for one person.

With that I would like you all to know that this is still YOUR community and we are here to work with the community and the existing staff to keep this site a place for you to come and feel at home.

As of now I will be the only VerticalScope employee to join the site, however we do have some technology staff that may post using my account from time-to-time.
I am here to answer questions help with forum issues and make sure we are doing our job and keeping you all happy. I may not be on the forums for hours and hours, however I do check in on a daily basis. Please feel free to ask questions in this section of the forum and I will do my best to answer any and all of them. I hope you all enjoy this new chapter in iHackMyi.com life.

iTunes 10.6 has cropped into the Apple Software Update and sports the following features as stated in the Patch info:

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As usual, update at your own risk! This update could potentially screw your jailbreak and use caution until told it's safe by one of the dev team members. (Usually they turn out to be fine but there's always a risk.)

Since we've had the old ones for a VERY LONG time indeed, we felt that the rules needed a big update.

These rules have been worked on by the whole team and drafted and redrafted until we felt they were ready, so here they are:
(Click the icon to view them!)

These rules take effect from now and as you can tell, they are self explanatory, as are any punishments for breaking said rules.

Thanks for reading. As you were!

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Members of iHMi,

I would like to inform you that today at 3pm EST we will be moving to a much faster, secure, and stable server. There may be some downtime associated with this but we will try to keep it as minimal as possible. Once the server is back online and running we will do a bug check to make sure everything is up to spec.

-Logan
iHMi Admin

Apple has officially sent out invitations for an event on Wednesday, March 7th at 10 AM PT. It will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

As you can see from the invite image, there is a picture of an iPad dock with the tagline "We have something you really have to see. And touch." No surprise there. What do you think they might surprise us with?