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Apple Issues Warning on iPhone Unlocking

elgruga said:
I live in Canada (thats the permafrosty place just north of the US...).

I like the iPhone.
I know that its LEGAL to unlock your cell phone.
I bought an iPhone - legally from Apple in the US (Washington State, if you must know)
I unlocked my iPhone myself using the excellent instructions on modmyiphone.com.
Rogers (my cell provider) allow me to use the iPhone - I checked.
I am happy because iPhone is really f****** good and saves me time and hassle.

So whats the problem? I WONT be downloading any upgrades until the iphonedev folks OK it.

I dont CARE about new features because the iPhone, as it stands, has ALL that I need or want.

If Apple want to 'brick' my iPhone, they need me to download files to do that.

I am stupid, but not quite that stupid......

I thnk this is Apple's way of (a) keeping everything cool with AT&T and (b) warning those who have unlocked to NOT download the new changes until iphonedev have cracked it again.

Thankyou, Apple for the timely and polite warning.

Enough of the delight in the notion of destroying property on these forums.
Very nasty to see that - not nice to wish a damaged iPhone on a guy or gal who paid good, hard-earned cash for it.....



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Thanks for that. I feel the same way and I totally agree that it's nasty for anybody to wish unlockers ill.
 
Oh, no. I am so scared! :cool:

Sounds to me like Apple is gonna be putting something in 1.1.1 to brick all the unlockers.... and brick with a vengeance. Does not seem like a good idea to me. If they do that, and they thought the backlash after a 200 dollar price drop was bad...
 
i never gotta to install any new iphone software

anyway those free third party software seem better than iphone software.

and it will grow.
 
What people don't realize is that once they release the new software anytime you go to do a Restore (for whatever reason) it will restore to the NEW firmware...this is unless you go and hack iTunes to restore to an old one...which I heard can be done but is a pain in the ass.
 
If they intentionally break unlocked iPhones, I'm seriously done with Apple after 8 years of being a Mac user. Thats just not cool.
 
This is Great News, if this is a legitimate warning on Apple's part, not a scare tactic. It just goes to show that it's going to be an extensive update. Bring it on!!!
 
Heres the quote from the newest list of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)


"The purpose of the software lock appears to be limited to restricting the owner’s use of the mobile handset to support a business model, rather than to protect access to a copyrighted work itself."

We DONT have to support Apple's or AT&T's business plan, and if they insist that unlocking is wrong, a class-action lawsuit is on the cards, folks.

Apple will tread carefully - note the modified iPhone statement already. Expect more on this in the coming weeks.....

Perhaps, in view of the DCMA, the compromise will be unlocking of the SIM, but you lose the ability to change the OSX stuff.....?

I could live with that - no updates for unlockers until you have a plan, but SIM is unlocked.
 
Daremo said:
It's because you're NOT just changing the software. Unlocking changes the firmware on the modem. The potential danger has always been known, people shouldn't act so surprised.
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It's because the majority of people that do these hacks are the end users who have no idea what processes are involved in it. They didn't discover it, or write it, or dig through the iphone to figure it out. They do a few clicks and don't think about what it's actually doing. Just the end result. These are the people that coincidentally also bitch and whine about everything.
 
I'm starting to REALLY hate this company. Even Microsoft doesn't pull this crap. the only thing close to that is with the 360 and even then that's generally to pirate games.

Apple is the new Microsoft. Thankfully it will be a cold day in hell when I buy an iPhone in its current state.
 
one1 said:
Apple says what they need to say to keep at&t happy.

Software update? tell me one thing that apple can add that has not already been hacked or WILL be hacked within say.... a months time (which is forever in hacking the iphone, things move at the speed of light).

Apple has seen hackers put out every program that they planned on releasing for the phone through time to keep people hanging on and following apples release line up so they'd stay excited about it.

Apple gave us nothing, and the hacks gave us everything. Apple's next update could not possibly include anything even remotely close to what the hackers have done so far, short of an itunes store which simply generates more money for apple - not really in the users common interest. We have Itunes, we have a sync cable, we have the option to not update.

Apple's statement is pure propaganda to keep at&t happy and try to discourage users from advancing their units past apples releases.
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Okay, if the new firmware is released can I still sync with iTunes, but not do a software [firmware update] or is that done automatically at a sync?
 
Stokkes said:
It's a darn good thing they updated the article. The previous statement would have easily been grounds for a class action lawsuit.

You can legally unlock your phone and if Apple came swooping in and bricked all those phones, well ****, throw my name into the hat for that lawsuit!
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If what you did to your iPhone results in an iPhone unready to receive the update, including any firmware adjustments, they will probably just not apply the update when you connect iPhone to computer. That would seem the prudent program for them to follow, and it hardly seems like grounds for a lawsuit. They do have an obligation to follow their contract with ATT and try to protect it from third party breach.

All they're doing is saying hey, here's the requirement for updating your iPhone. What's different in that, from any zillion other updates one has tried to apply to a computer? Nothing. The update program pokes around and announces "This update cannot be applied to this computer" and you click ok because that's all there is to click on and then you investigate other options, like ALTERING your setup to meet their requirements for the update you wanted to apply.
 
I plan to bypass activation once I get my iPhone since I'll mainly use it for its WiFi features and NOT unlocking it (will eventually use att prepaid). This update shouldnt be a problem for me, correct?
 
Stokkes said:
Unlocking your iPhone is not illegal. In fact, I believe US Law allows anyone to unlock their phones should they wish (hence why most carriers will provide an unlock code).

If apple is bricking phones because they're unlocked (which is legal), I smell a class action lawsuit a-brewing.
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i have never seen an unlock code come out of verizon or alltel...
 
sthpark7791 said:
I plan to bypass activation once I get my iPhone since I'll mainly use it for its WiFi features and NOT unlocking it (will eventually use att prepaid). This update shouldnt be a problem for me, correct?
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You'll have to wait and see how much has changed as they may make it so that activating and jailbreaking are different.
 
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