Mayor Lormar’s Random Madness

PC World – Firmware Update Breaks Hacked iPhones

PC World reported Saturday that with Apple’s new firmware release (1.1.1) for the iPhone, which several phones have already started updating to automatically thanks to the built-in iTunes software update on the phone, breaks (permanently in some cases) or disables iPhones that have been unlocked or hacked so they will work with carriers other than at&t and erases unauthorized third-party apps.

This sort of behavior is completely unacceptable and sounds exactly like something Microsoft would do. Way to go Steve, ‘it just works. (unless you want to use it in a way we don’t approve of.)’ should be Apple’s new slogan for the iPhone, and for that matter any of their products.

Tsk. Tsk. 

I find it quite ironic how they forever trumpet about how creative their users are but then when people want to modify the software to suit the way they use it, Apple stomps out that creativity like so many cockroaches.

-=[crd]=-

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