iOS 8
Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the IOS 8 operating system during his keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California June 2, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith Reuters

Apple will reportedly issue the first iOS 8 official update, build 8.1 that is, this late October 2014, which serves a signal to jailbreak fans that either the Evasi0n8 from Team Evad3rs or the one from Pangu will immediately become available.

However, it appears bit more of patience will be required from jailbreakers as the iPhone and iPad liberating tool from any of these two group of developers will not be made public anytime soon.

While Pangu from China has earlier indicated that the work to open up iOS 8 is already underway, Redditor grapplerone is not buying the suggestion that Apple's latest mobile operating system will be cracked in a matter of few weeks or months.

It is not that iOS 8 is jailbreak-proof as devs like @MuscleNerd, himself a member of the Evad3rs, has hinted that the software has the exploits that his group can poke and work around with.

It is more of the practicality of jailbreaking iOS 8 in the right way and at the right time, grapplerone said.

In a Reddit post that has attracted a long thread of discussion, the jailbreak fan rightfully pointed out the two main reasons why the Evasi0n7 replacement may take quite some time before becoming a reality.

Stability concerns

Grapplerone argued that "it's a waste of developers' time to create a jailbreak for a new iOS before Apple has their new version working properly." True enough, iOS 8 in its present state remains plagued by bugs and glitches so jailbreaking it will achieve nothing.

The statement echoes the previously aired logic that the Evad3rs or Pangu would only finalise their works once iOS 8 has reached a more stable though not perfect status. Jailbreak watchers are expecting that JB developers would accelerate on their efforts right after the 8.1 update deployment.

Yet prior to that, the jailbreak scene is more in the watch-and-wait mode though it doesn't necessarily mean that hackers are idle.

Compatibility issues

The same Redditor also underscored the fact that quite a number of applications on the Apple App Store are not fully attuned with iOS 8. Grapplerone reckoned that "it takes a few months for a lot of these apps to work properly."

The Reddit post stressed that jailbreakers need to be patient and realistic and "let Apple fix their products, the developers update their apps and the jailbreak will follow."

In the end, the likely and earliest iOS 8 jailbreak release date is late December 2014, which is around the same time that Team Evad3rs has rolled out Evasi0n7 in 2013 - that is if the famed hacking group will beat Pangu to the jailbreak race.