New iPhone Firmware Out, Hacked iPhones Being Disabled?
Apple warned us this might happen. Might, apparently, has become fact, based on early reports surfacing from iPhone owners and gadget blogs. The newly released iPhone 1.1.1 firmware is apparently wreaking havoc with iPhones that are running third-party applications or were unlocked and using a non-AT&T SIM card.
WirelessInfo's Richard Baguley reports that his unlocked iPhone (which was also running third-party apps) is currently useless after having run through the update, even though he has the original AT&T SIM in the phone. I'll update this blog as I see more reports hit the Web.
If you've already hacked your iPhone, I'd suggest taking a wait-and- see approach with regard to this latest update. No sense in further risking the health of your device unnecessarily, when you can gain from the collective knowledgebase of iPhone users. Furthermore, the iPhone Dev Team issued a statement earlier this week, promising that it would have an iPhone restoration tool available for download next week. That tool could be the salvation for the estimated hundreds of thousands of users who've downloaded and implemented unlock schemes.
For now, at least, Apple isn't requiring you to update the firmware alongside performing your iTunes update (7.4.3). What concerns me is the precedent this latest update sets. We all have had the experience of having a device that worked perfectly well...until we performed some kind of software or firmware update. Now, here's one more such example. Currently, we have the option to upgrade our iTunes software. However, given how closed the Apple iTunes-iPod-iPhone ecosystem is, I can foresee a time when Apple might take away that option, and make it mandatory to upgrade your software and firmware both. If Apple were to take this step, though, that would take control and choice away from us users, though, and constrain the fledgling third-party iPhone development community.
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Purchased iPhones belong to their buyers, not to the company that sold them. iPhone owners should be able to install whatever software they want in their iPhones.
What's next? Apple will dictate what music, pictures, and ring tones are uploaded to the iPhones! And next, who can own an iPhone and who cannot!
Apple is now writing viruses for its own products. This was a premeditated attack on its consumers. Very Sad and shameful...
Hey Apple, this is America! Land of the consumers that made you who you are. It's a shame that companies loose respect for their consumers as they get fatter and fatter.
Waiting for the real geniuses to write the antidote.
Purchased iPhones belong to their buyers, not to the company that sold them. iPhone owners should be able to install whatever software they want in their iPhones.
What's next? Apple will dictate what music, pictures, and ring tones are uploaded to the iPhones! And next, who can own an iPhone and who cannot!
Apple is now writing viruses for its own products. This was a premeditated attack on its consumers. Very Sad and shameful...
Hey Apple, this is America! Land of the consumers that made you who you are. It's a shame that companies loose respect for their consumers as they get fatter and fatter.
Waiting for the real geniuses to write the antidote.
This is just ONE more reason why I won't buy an iPhone (even though I'm already an AT&T [formerly AT&T, which became Cingular, which became AT&T (again)]).
I can't believe Apple is really asking for the class-action lawsuit (which, I'm sure MANY law firms are planning as we speak).
Perhaps THAT explains why Apple issued those rebates (so that their DAMAGES would be reduced to the price AFTER rebate).
So, all you "original purchase price" iPhone buyers - Don't take that rebate - keep your DAMAGES high.
Note to lawyers: Rebate original purchase price of iPhone PLUS privide NEW (unbricked) iPhone PLUS provide UNLOCK SOFTWARE THEMSELVES (kind of like Microsoft has been REQUIRED to unbundle Explorer from Windows) PLUS promise to NEVER, EVER "brick" ANY consumer electronic device again.
p.s. "bricking" a device IS a malicious software (virus) attack, which, I believe, is ALREADY against the law!
If you are a California resident and you believe you quality to join in filing a class action lawsuit against Apple Inc., you should contact the California lawyers working on this at http://www.appleiphonelawsuit.com.
If you are a California resident and you believe that you qualify to join in filing an iPhone class action lawsuit against Apple Inc., you should contact the California lawyers working on this at http://www.appleiphonelawsuit.com.
Oh Apple, how far you have fallen. Where once you portrayed yourselves as the unwashed masses, hurling a hammer at Big Brother, you are now indeed the embodiment of the corporate suit. For shame. Steve Wozniak would be rolling over in his grave. You know, if he actually had a grave instead of huge piles of money.