The Dev Team Edition came in two flavors, one that included the game, and one that was items-only.

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The Dev Team, whose research was instrumental in Hotz's initial hacking of the iPhone's hardware, isn't the first to offer a software-only unlock.

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The Dev Team, by contrast, is offering its findings pro bono, and developers are already using the information to build free, user-friendly unlocking programs.

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Speakers include Jay Freeman, the creator of Cydia, and the Chronic Dev Team, who developed Absinthe, the jailbreak of the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2.

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When EA and Visceral announced the Dev Team Edition, I was quite intrigued, as it promised some nifty game-related items as well as physical items based off in-game items.

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The iPhone Dev Team has accused him of stealing their code to create the program, and many in the hacker community instead credit Erica Sadun, a blogger for the Unofficial Apple Weblog.

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Harrison and other iPhone hackers in the iPhone Dev Team community don't intend to profit from their programs, though the iPhone Dev Team does solicit donations on its Web site to fund its research.

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The fact is, once a game wraps, the dev team has little to do until launch, and so they may cobble together some additional content, perhaps drawn from old ideas that were scrapped due to time constraints or a lack of resources.

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