Last November, Android developer Howard Harte offered $1000 to the first person or team that could jailbreak the Google TV.
A group of developers heeded the call and last week successfully jailbroke the platform using a mixed hardware and software-based hack.
The group, GTVhacker dev team, also released a 6-min video showing off their work (below).
Harte says he is excitedly writing ... [ read the full article ]
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Quote:"The most important thing for developers though is that they now have full access to developing for the platform well in advance of Google releasing the tools," Harte continues. "Now, it should be possible for Rovio to port Angry Birds [...] to the Google TV."
Would Rovio actually port Angry Birds this way? It's not a really official way of doing things, is it?
I guess the main reason for a port is to support the NON-touchscreen-capable Google TV device. Still, pretty interesting; this also may mean the eventual full root of the device, if that isn't implied already.
