iPod Fans

iPod Touch 2.0 is out, and the Dev-Team appears to have hacked it already. A jailbreak tool should be out soon. It's all very exciting, and we're all poised for the release. But...there should we be? We're not sure if our current Installer/Cydia apps will work on our jailbroken 2.0s. Some are certain they won't, and no one's equally sure they will. And sure, there's a lot of overlap between the Installer/Cydia apps and the Apple Appstore apps, but the overlap isn't nearly complete. As yet, I see no replacements for great apps like weDict, WiFi Toggle, AgileMessenger (or any IM client, really), Convert (or Converter), Lexitron, PocketTouch, TouchPad Pro, etc.
Furthermore, many of the AppStore incarnations are improved and commercial versions of their earlier, free Installer/Cydia versions. Books.app and Sketches.app, for examples, are now for sale on the AppStore. If our old 1.1.4 versions don't work on 2.0, the developers have no reason to fix it for free. So, what should we do?

Look and wait. No, not wait and see. More active. Check if your favourite apps (or ones to replace them) are available on the App Store. When the jailbreak tool is released, read the relevant sites and blogs and check if those apps (or ones to replace them) will work on a jailbroken 2.0. And of course, the App Store will keep growing. So, keep going back to check for apps there.

The Apple experience is that early birds really do get the worm...slimy, grubby, smelly things. It's going to be hard, but I think we should show some restraint.