Comments on: The ‘grizzly’ side of iPhone

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:36:27 +0000

The new 16gb IPhone released and apple says it come with the new software package, making it harder for third party companies to unlock it

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:14:03 +0000

There may be a lawsuit. Just like with sony and their rootkit fiasco, “It’s apple’s intellectual property, not apple’s phone.” They sold the phone and the purchaser can do whatever they wish with it. Additionally, locking out third party apps is considered anti-competitive, they should have learned from Microsoft’s legal woes.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:50:11 +0000

“You should be allowed to use it on any network seeing how much this thing costs, That’s just like buying a computer that only allows you to connect to AOL.”

you where aware of the limitations when you agreed to the iphone terms of contract by “hacking” you broke the TOC so Apple leagly wont give a s**t.

iphone like linux phone coming out soon and some one may port linux to the iphone(if you remove all apple software they cant brick it.)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:04:23 +0000

You should be allowed to use it on any network seeing how much this thing costs, That’s just like buying a computer that only allows you to connect to AOL.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:39:05 +0000

I hope there *is* a lawsuit! Apple can not just throw their weight around and bully their customers like that. The golden rule of marketing is: “The customer may not always be right, but they are always the customer!” As a software developer for decades, I know that the update did not “just break things” on the phones. They had their programmers purposefully and specifically write code that was engineered to change the basic methods of how software executes on the phone processor, with the sole purpose of breaking existing applications. Then, the update they sent out had all new versions of their *approved* software so that they would all work with the new operating system changes. Typical. Sad. A long time ago Microsoft learned how to engineer backwards-compatibility into their O/S’s, and so can Apple. Competition is what drives the market. The music industry is finally learning this. It seems Apple still needs to learn it too.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:50:12 +0000

The key line in your post is

“Should they have known better?

The answer is yes, Apple made it quite clear what could happen before the release of the update. If you had a hacked phone and you updated anyway you are a moron and should just keep your mouth shut.

The thing that ticks me off about all the whiners is that had they waited a day they would have heard from all the hacker groups that they will have fixes out asap and there would be no problems for them. Further, all these people talking about class-action suits are in or a rude awakening. Apple issued public earnings about the update rendering hacked phones unusable so there seems to be little legal recourse.