While we all wait to see if Apple’s HDTV will become a reality later this year, enterprising hackers have been hard at work over the holidays cooking up their latest magical feat: Running iOS apps full screen on the existing (jailbroken) second-generation Apple TV.
MacRumors is reporting on the progress of two iOS developers who have taken it upon themselves to hack a jailbroken second-generation Apple TV and bring full-screen, full resolution iOS apps to the television. “TheMudKip” created “a custom Springboard (Home Screen),” while Steven Troughton-Smith has used his experience running iPhone and iPad apps at full resolution.
“Many existing apps seem to run well on the Apple TV, which is known to be an iOS device using an A4 processor,” MacRumors reports. “When this generation of the Apple TV was released, we noted that Apple may have had plans to incorporate native applications all along. In fact, Jobs said that an Apple TV App Store could launch when the time is right.”
For now, the hack is more of a proof of concept than anything else, but as shown in the embedded YouTube video below, if Apple doesn’t want to provide full-screen iOS apps for the Apple TV, the hackers might just step in and fill the void.
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