Not Intentional?
I think that you guys are crazy to think that apple is "not intentionally" breaking the iphone. Especially when good old jobs said the following in London; the company is in a cat and mouse game with hackers.
And you don't think that this update bricked the phones?!? SHEESH. They probably had their dev team download every hack for this phone and figure a way for this update to screw up each hack.
So what if ijon knew that he might have a bricked phone. He obviously has the resources not to worry if he does need the phone or he would have been more cautious. Somebody has to have the balls to do it so the rest of you people with hacked phones will know what to expect. He should be congratulated.
Furthermore the fact that phones are tied to different GSM (or CDMA carriers for that matter) Is totally retarded. People should be able to take their phone from one carrier to another as long as the carrier is on the same standard. The fact that they don't is totally un-American and monopolistic. It reminds me of the old bell company. In the early days you couldn't use any phone but the expensive ones that were sold by the Bell company. They were more expensive and offered the consumers less choice. The excuse to people was that phones made outside of the Bell company could potentially damage the network.... (Hmm where have I heard that before... Verizon) Well, Congress finally came along and inquired why these telephones made by other manufactures with the same parts couldn't be used. They didn't buy the phone company's excuse and forced Bell to allow telephones manufactured by other companies onto the network. Lowering prices, increasing selection and spurring competition.
This is why phones in Europe and Japan are WAY ahead of most phones on market on the US. It is much easier to use an unlocked phone on any network in those countries. I am sorry to say it, but the government needs to get involved and not allow this kind of relationship for ANY headset manufacture and carrier. Could you imagine if you stil had to by a particular handset for your home phone service because of such regulations? Why should it be any different for the Cell companies. Just like porting numbers, it is another excuse that the phone companies say is hard to do.
It is a shame that apple is helping ATT have a monopolistic roll in the US by forcing people to use one particular GSM carrier, when the phone could easily run on any GSM Network. The fact is that it is all about money. Profits before the people. Apple = The next MS.
