Well well Apple are up to dirty tricks once again!!! hey wait a sec aren’t these the same guys who cry like babies whenever another company such as Microsoft does something they feel is "underhand"
What they have done this time is to make it so that anyone who has "unlocked" their simcard in the Iphone to be able to use it on non AT&T or in the UK O2 networks, cannot install any updates for the phone ever or it will get junked and not be able to be repeaired by Apple or their stores.
Apple have locked their customers in to ridiculous deals with the only one mobile company per territory and I also believe that you have to have a new contact to be able to have the phone in the first place.
UnSimlocking is such a common thing to do with virtually any mobile phone but Apple have actually junked the phones with any modification.
"Apple has warned that anyone attempting to unlock their iPhone to use with an unauthorized mobile network could find their phones irreparably damaged.
The company said that modified mobiles would become "permanently inoperable" once Apple updates were installed"
So lets think about this update that Apple are forcing on people - what does it contain? oh it contains software that you were lied to about in the first place!! software that you thought was installed already - stuff you saw on the "groovy" demos and adverts you saw for this phone.The truth is-it was never there Apple are trying to cover their lies by releasing this patch to install I tunes properly and tidy up other software that doesn’t work as "claimed"
So if you have unlocked your phone you now will not have access to this "working" software and if you do the update your phone will turn it into the most expensive paperweight there is;)
Well I warned you as it was launched on the world that this like most Apple products would be a steaming pile of horseshit
Apple should be ashamed of themselves doing this and also for doing exactly what they have been crying about for years about Microsoft, locking people in to crappy hardware and software....

 

 

 

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I don't see what the big deal is...it's not like you bought a phone that apple promised you can run whatever you want on it. If you want a phone you can code for and run all sorts of fun things on, go get a PocketPC or a palm based phone.

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I don't think that is at all a bad thing for Apple to do. when you buy the iPhone to use as a phone, you need to sign a contract with one of the two companies allowed to provide phone service for the phone. Part of that contract, as is part of any contract, in fact, part of what is agreed upon when you buy any phone for a specific provider, is that you will not unlock the phone. By unlocking the phone, you void the warranty and any service agreement. Updates and repairs by Apple are part of the service agreement and warranty for the iPhone. If you perform an action that voids said agreements, especially one which is obviously not allowed, such as unlocking the phone, you shouldn't be provided with the services that come with the contract. Legal agreements are binding in two directions.

~Viz

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Well, on the other side of the coin though, cingular should get with apple to provide a proper (supported) way to unlock the phone per their policy of letting the customer remove the subsidy lock after 3 months of being in the contract.

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Well I think I tunes and the ability to buy and listen to tunes on your I phone 
was one of the big sales points from Apple, it didnt work, so yes they did break
 promises  and yes sure I own a pocket pc for years already and im soo happy with it and the freedom to pick and choose from thousands of applications not the ones Apple make solely and try to lock you in to.Also I think the simunlocking issue is a lot more prevelant in Europe where I am not in the US of A where im guessing you guys come from.

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Yea, usually its not so great of an idea to be one of the first to mod something that has firmware that can be updated, especially if you want to update it or if it is required for it to be updated. Some "hacked" PSPs in Japan were bricked by firmware updates and now iPhones. Also, many times it is stated in the terms of service, such as that of the PSP firmware updates, that modding it is illegal.

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when it comes out here i gather it will be on telstra so there wont be anything to worry about

theres nothing that wrong with apple is there?

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I'm torn on issues like this... on the one hand it's rediculous from a logical stand point. Once you sell your product (the phone) that should be their major concern... they are selling more by having people outside the US buy them and unlock them then they would otherwise so I don't see why they would handle it in such a fashion.

On the other hand it still IS the choice they made and as mentioned is probably detailed to be against the contract signed when buying the phone, so is well within their rights per se. Frankly my opinion is I think it's a shitty thing to do but not really 'wrong' just assholeish

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I think it's especially nasty of Apple to ruin your phone with their updates. So what if you unlock it? you void your warranty. But that's the same with everything. You open, change, or take it apart, and you lose your right to free service. But you don't lose your right to use said product. Really this smacks of the exact same attitude that everyone rants on about Microsoft having. Apple is no different. But i'm sure the same guys who cracked the original iPhone protection won't take long to crack the update and release a patched version, which will run fine on an unlocked iPhone.

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Just buy another phone and you won't have problems, there were and are a lot of similar things to iPhone, it isn't something really very very new or something, just has a great commercial among people and especially among young people on the Internet too.. I don't bother, but the things they are trying to do is just usual, I mean what other people said above me, I don't want to repeat.

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