Apple Strike Back: “We Will Brick Unlocked Phones”
Filed under: Apple News, News, iPhone News
As a way of showing their appreciation and affection for all those companies that offer to unlock your Apple iPhone to any network, Steve Jobs has shown a potential threat to their businesses. Now that wasn’t very nice of you Steve, was it?
iPhoneSIMfree’s great way to unlock is available for about $50 in the States and roughly £40 in the UK, while the iPhone Dev Team’s step-by-step free guide is getting more and more popular.
Ars Technica seem to have quite a reliable mole regarding the Bricking business and is suggesting that rather than just make the phones re-locked, Apple are taking it that one step further and planning to “brick” unlocked iPhones as a lesson to hackers.
“We have reason to believe that Apple may go much further than just ‘breaking’ the SIM unlocks that have been released so far. One move that the cat (or is Apple the mouse?) could make in this game would be to permanently and irreparably brick unlocked iPhones when they run this month’s pending software update.”
Do you think this can work? After all, the PSP bricking from Sony hasn’t been too successful and hackers continue to free the way for us homebrew users.
Will Apple be able to stop hackers from playing with the Jesus phone? What do you think?
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I believe unlocking the iPhone will always be no problem for Apple or Steve. I believe this article is simple Bull shit. People must not forget that Steve only made a comment about locking that was common sense and the reaction has been articles titled iPhone will be bricked. This is a bit much. in this case we should hear his one sentence for what it is and that is simply Steve reassuring his new contract signers in Europe and potential contract signers that they can sign in with apple and not worry about getting the shitty end of the stick down the road.