What is the state of apple device (iPhone, iPod, etc.) support?

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Published on 2011-11-28T17:50:05Z Indexed on 2011/11/28 18:50 UTC
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Short story: syncing my iPhone music with banshee didn't work and what's worse is, banshee deleted or corrupted the existing music on the phone. I'm sick I tried to sync music at all. And I must admit, if I were not a developer I probably would have switched back to windows instantly.

So my questions are these:

What is the state of apple device support in ubuntu? iPhone and iPod in particular.

Is there support for any version of iOS? For example is there support for iOS5? If not, will there be? When? What I can do to get support delivered quicker?

What does jail breaking mean? You tend to read that quite a lot when troubleshooting, though I imagine most people don't understand what it means. And do you need to jail break the phone in order to sync it with ubuntu?

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