Apple: "iPhone SIM unlockers will end up with iBricks"

Damn! I cant Use My iphone!!! I Went To Apple This Morning To Have Them Fix, But! This Fool Told Me They Cant Touch My Iphone Because Its Been Modified! C'mon Wussup w/ That!!!

customers... customers... customers...

People know that unlocking the iPhone is against the terms. If Apple let all those "poor suffering victims" mess with the iPhone (or any product) freely, they would lose a lot. Any third party unlocking or software may damage the device and make it useless. Now imagine all those ADD-enabled geeks happily returning their bricks to stores to get a new one back.

When you think about that, you'll notice that what Apple is doing is safeguarding their revenue. Unlock the phone when you want, but you know the risks. If you don't like the rules, buy a treo.

People are out there buying iPhones, unlocking them and then selling them for profit on fleaBay and elsewhere. And you guys are wondering why Apple would possibly get in the way of this process. Can you get a clue?
Not only is it illegal (there are laws that prohibit people profiting from the unlocking of cell phones, yes ALL cell phones), but there is the whole ethical thing of people profiting on this situation.

Let me get this straight.
You deliberately modified your iphone and now you are angry at the manufacturer because they say your deliberate modification may have damaged the phone beyond repair if updated the proper way?
Anyone else seeing the flaws in this way of thinking?
Didn't you know when you bought it that the service with AT&T was part of the deal?
You vote for products with your money. If you didn't like the product or services that come with it, simply don't buy it. And saying you will sue Apple or saying bad things about AT&T doesn't negate the fact that you are responsible for what happens to your iphone.
Stop trying to put the blame on somebody else and accept responsibility for your actions.

I'm afraid I have double-posted.

I hit the submit button once and didn't see anything happening, so I went to my text file with a copy of my original post (the second one above here, 2:09 PM on Sept 25, 2007) and made a couple of grammar/spelling corrections. Then I pasted it in and hit submit again. Then I decided to read the instructions:

"When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password."

So I opened my email, found the two replies from service@blogsmith.com, and clicked on the second, edited version to confirm my posting.

Today, after some sleep, I came back here to find the post I'd submitted and scrolled past it without recognizing it. So, back into email to find the "password," and I again clicked on the "submit" button for the first, uncorrected version I had submitted but I didn't find a password in the email. Maybe passwords are not used?

Sorry.

a friend of mine just bought me an iPhone in Los Angeles (i'm from chile), and it's arriving on september 30th, FUCK!!! what if the new firmware is released before i can unlock it!!! i should bought a nokia

I can't wait, maybe the iBrick will finally put an end to Erica's bipolar love/hate relationship with her iphone, errr, ahh iBrick... because then her columns have no place on the site... because we aren't reading the unofficial unsupported apple weblog, right??

What's really funny is the FEAR that this leak has caused, because all the "hacker fanboys" now realize that they didn't choose the side in the know...and willingly "hacked" their iPhone. The embarrasmebt of thos possible lost money as well as having to tell everyone they showed the hacked iphone off to that they are SOL because they choose to give APPLE & AT&T the finger first...

@32
"everyone who goes on about apple breaking laws and facing lawsuits, do you REALLY think they dont have lawyers to guide their decisions?"

Good god. Don't you think EVERY corporation has lawyers? Don't corporations get sued - successfully - for lawbreaking policies, every day? Having lawyers guide your decisions doesn't guarantee that you won't be breaking laws, PARTICULARLY in the civil code, which is tortuous and byzantine and often contradictory.

@40 "Im sure every single app that is hacked onto iphones all over will come down from Apple eventually WITH support from Apple! I love the hacking community really, and im with you guys but you gotta be smarter than to think apple would just let the phone be gutted. Its never been like that with their computers and other products why would they let it with their phone?"

What? What Apple are you talking about? I've had Rockbox installed on an ipod for years. I've seen Hackintoshes running 10.5.9. I've seen Macbooks running Linux before Boot Camp.

For the record, the iPhone and iPod touch are more than just music players. They have the hardware to be wonderful general purpose devices. This isn't like a car, where modding the ECM gets you 10hp and a higher shift rpm, it's like a car where modding the ECM lets you FLY, or hover, or cook a gormet meal in the glovebox while watching a theatrical feature on the HUD, or fold out the back seat and sleep in it, or play chess with on the console while the car takes black. These are inherent capabilities that are limited intentionally. Perhaps Apple has plans for third party apps, but I think that's far from a given - look how long it took on the 5g iPod, and all we got were a dozen games. I hope Apple does finally release 3rd party apps, but I suspect that if they do there will be about a dozen, and they'll be games, not useful things, like an ebook reader, a calendar that's useful, you know, PIM/PDA stuff - FAR from the "every single app that is hacked onto iphones all over will come down from Apple eventually WITH support from Apple!" assertion you made - which I think is not only naive, but hyperbolic as well.

"You change your phone slightly, to break a third party tie. This tie is not to the original vendor with all of the aforementioned fetters."
Nope, ya lost me there. It was always understood to be a package deal from the outset. The consensus was, if you DON'T want AT&T DON'T get the iPhone. Anything beyond that is an exercise in silliness that progressively extends into absurdity.