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List:       computerguys-l
Subject:    Re: Fwd: NYT: Altered iPhones Freeze Up
From:       mike <xhavok () GMAIL ! COM>
Date:       2007-09-30 22:22:30
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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 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.

Mike

On 9/30/07, Jeff Wright <gocatgo@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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, much less kind and
> understanding.  Is Apple replacing "Think Different" with "It Sucks to be
> You"?
>
> If not genetic engineering, then it appears that the Stockholm syndrome
> now
> has a cyber equivalent.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >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
> > methods of unlocking continued to work. Most third-party applications
> > did
> > stop working, but we don't know if the cause was deliberate or
> > incidental.
> >
> > When OS X first shipped there were many things that Apple told
> > developers
> > not to try. Those that did not listen to Apple's advice found that
> > Apple's updates frequently killed their applications.
> >
> > Looking back on this from 5 years perspective we now know that many
> > parts
> > of OS X were barely working and Apple knew that much work lay ahead.
> > Apple knew that these parts of the OS would get major revisions. Apple
> > did not want the added responsibility of making sure existing third-
> > party
> > software continued to work. Apple knew it probably would not. So Apple
> > tried to warn off developers and let them know that they would not have
> > Apple's support.
> >
> > Over time, these restrictions lessened and Apple told developers when
> > various parts of the OS were stable enough for third-party development.
> > Let's hope the same will happen with the iPhone/iPods.
>
>
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