We all love statistics and since the launch of the new Absinthe 2.0 tool nearly one million iOS devices have been jailbroken. The Chronic Dev Team who are behind the Absinthe jailbreak tool really haven�t wasted any time in telling the world just how popular the lastest version of Absinthe has been with jailbreakers.
The most prominent members of the Chronic Dev Team took to the stage in Amsterdam last Friday to give a two hour presentation about the exploits used in their previous iOS 5.0.1 untether before going on to introduce the second major release of Absinthe at the HITBSecConf. Absinthe 2.0 was immediately made available for public download and version 2.0.2 was pushed out to bring iPhone 4 9B208 build compatibility.
After only a couple of days of availability the Chronic Dev Team�s twitter account let the world know how many downloads the Absinthe jailbreak tool had received. The tweet stated that 211,401 iPad 3�s had been jailbroken and 973,086 devices has been newly jailbroken. One of the largest appeal factors to Absinthe 2.0 is that it is the first tool that provides a jailbreak for the new iPad 3.
Absinthe 2.0 provides users with the ability to jailbreak pretty much all iOS devices capable of running iOS 5.1.1 with the exception of the third generation Apple TV. The total number of devices being jailbroken using Absinthe is rising all the time. According to the owner of the BigBoss repo he was transferring 1 gigabit of data per second across ten servers since the release of Absinthe and this just goes to show how popular this jailbreak tool really is.
