Altered iPhones Freeze Up
By KATIE HAFNER
A software update to Apple's iPhone on Friday disabled
third-party applications and rendered iPhones that had been
unlocked completely unusable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/technology/29iphone.html?th&emc=th
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>A software update to Apple's iPhone on Friday disabled
>third-party applications and rendered iPhones that had been
>unlocked completely unusable.
Later news is that the phones were not made "completely unusable," a new
SIMM card could revive the phones. Also, there are reports that some
method
I thought transparent BS was genetically impossible, but again, you prove me
wrong. I didn't know there was a iGeneSplice app out. You've been
tinkering, haven't you?
Were this **cough** another company being so heavy-handed and totalitarian
with its customers, your words would have been much, m
The Jesus phone lives again.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone/unbricked-iphones-now-fully-working-calls-included-305253.php
Giz reporting iphones fully working after updates. I wonder if this will
end up being some cat and mouse game like so many other drm related issues.
On a note about what
>On a note about what Jeff said about Apple's heavy handedness, on a recent
>macbreak, full of mac zealots no less, Leo and Merlin both agreed that if
>Apple had the market share MS has they would be worse then MS is about
>exploiting it.
Back in the early days of Macs Apple decreed that the case
> Apple fussed for a while and then succumbed to the
> inevitable.
Doesn't seem like they learned all that much. New platforms. Same old
tricks.
> The main difference between MS and Apple customers is that Apple
> customers are a heck of a lot smarter.
Be brave Thomas and we'll be brave for yo
Heh I still have the back half of my original 128K Mac some where. I
swapped it out for a new back when I upgraded it to a Mac Plus. I
loved the foot long screwdriver they sent to open the case.
On 9/30/07, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On a note about what Jeff said about Apple's he