Hackers Now Able To Port Full-Resolution iOS Applications To Apple TV

Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) and another iOS hacker known as @themudkip have now managed to port full-resolution iOS applications to a second generation Apple TV.

Yesterday, we told you how the pair had managed to port iOS apps to an Apple TV, and included a video of the hack in-action within our article. However, though this was an incredible achievement, an issue with the hack was that iPhone apps appeared as pop-up windows, and were quite small compared with the HDTV screen.

Now, after another day of hacking Apple’s set-top box, this issue has been corrected: Steve Troughton-Smith and @themudkip have managed to get applications to display at the Apple TV’s 720p resolution. This is an important achievement. Before Apple launched the App Store in 2007, jailbreak developers created unofficial iOS apps for the original iPhone. Many believe that this was a key motivation for Apple’s development of an iOS application store, as it proved that iPhone owners were willing to jailbreak their handset in order to get apps.