PODCASTS Pandora Spent a Year Jailbreaking iPhones AdminOctober 17, 2023026 views Fun fact: Pandora spent an entire year jailbreaking iPhones! Pandora wanted to get its iOS app ready for the App Store launch. In 2007, the Pandora founders had lunch with Scott Forstall, Apple’s SVP of iOS software at the time. Pandora wanted to know how they could prepare for next gen of iPhones that would include an app store. Forstall said “it wouldn’t be a waste of your time to jailbreak some iPhones and use the kind of back door toolkits that were being distributed by other people to build a native Pandora app while we get our act together at Apple on something more formal.” When the App Store launched in 2008, Pandora was one of the first apps available. Nine months after the launch, Pandora was on 21% of iPhones! Smart move. Watch the full Trapital episode about Pandora here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r4ka8lrnlQ source