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Nightwatch, Tmiw, Darkten, and Daeken, over at the iPhone Dev Wiki, have successfully compiled and launched the first “Hello World” application on the iPhone. Achieving such a feat definitely gives true potential to fully unlocking this bad boy. Hello World is made possible by the ARM/Mach-O Toolchain that has been in development for some time now.

the Dev Team quotes:

After many, many hours of intense work from “Nightwatch”, the first independent “Hello World”* application has been compiled and launched on the iPhone. This was made possible using the “ARM/Mach-O Toolchain”, Nightwatch’s “special project”, that he has been working on so carefully over the past few weeks. Certain parts of the toolchain (such as the assembler) are being refined and tested and these will be released as soon as possible.

It should be noted that Nightwatch has been instrumental in creating these tools, working in near isolation to get them finished. Nightwatch was also responsible for the “jail exploit” that he developed from information he and other members of the the dev team discovered.

Amazing work!

Share your appreciation with the dev team on IRC — #iphone @ irc.osx86.hu. Check back later for a release. :)