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Steve Jobs: “We WIll Ensure You Will Not Unlock Your iPhone”

Posted September 21, 2007 7:00 AM by Tanner Godarzi
Categories: Competition Third-party add-ons Hacks News 

First there was the huge uproar over a hardware based iPhone unlock by George Hotz then the scattered reactions for iPhoneSIMFree’s unlock and then a free GUI unlock was received well, but the big man himself, Steve Jobs isn’t so happy.

One might think that unleashing the iPhone on any GSM network would be advantageous for Apple right? Well, they kinda have this little revenue sharing thing going on with AT&T in the US of A, O2 in the UK and T-Mobile in Germany. Every other carrier either hasn’t met Apple’s demands or are just rocking it without the iPhone for the time being.

Since these carriers aren’t paying the customary sacrifices monthly revenue cut it’s obvious Apple doesn’t want anything to do with them and secure all existing users with AT&T and soon to be T-Mobile & O2. And that is exactly what Steve Jobs intends to do, he was quoted as saying this during the iPhone’s announcement on O2.

It’s a cat-and-mouse game. We try to stay ahead. People will try to break in, and it’s our job to stop them breaking in.

Don’t be surprised if your unlocked iPhone bricks up after an oh so mysterious update.

Via: Gizmodo

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  1. Of course Apple is going to go after people with unlocked phones.  They have exclusive deals for the iPhone and I am sure in the agreement between the cell companies and Apple it says something about Apple going after these people.  I think the next update will break the unlocks and likely break some of the hacks as well.  It is simply Apple protecting their investment.

    Posted by Jason on September 21, 2007 11:28 AM

  2. I cannot believe how stupid Apple are on this issue.  Next one out I guess is locked iMacs that can only only access the internet if you are an AT&T broadband subscriber :-9

    My strategy is to hold off buying the iphone until after a couple of firmware releases, unlock it, and then simply not install future upgrades until I have verified that it will not lock the phone down.

    Posted by free to roam on September 24, 2007 9:48 AM

  3. If you do not update you unlocked Iphone and you us it on another network, you should have no problem. The iPhone is so cool as is why risk damaging a perfectly great unlocked iPhone? lol
    best advice:
    Watch and wait for updates and then wait for the hacked version.

    Posted by Pollmak on September 25, 2007 9:47 AM

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