I am getting really tired of folks blaming others for their problems...
1. It is stealing to unlock an iPhone and use it on any other service - Apple and AT&T have every right to expect the revenue from the two year service agreeement. 2. It is Not stealing to not buy an iPhone - that is a viable alternative choice. 3. NO ONE forced anyone to download the update - those with unlocked phones had been warned and still did the deed - THEY are too blame for their state TWICE over...
Time for Apple to stand up the anarchists and hackers - you had your fun - you can now resume trying to hack version 1.1.1
"It is stealing to unlock an iPhone and use it on any other service"
Flat out wrong. It's perfectly legal. There is a debate over whether or not Apple's reaction to void people's warranty and brick their phones a legally-bound action; and it seems like it just might be fine. But there is no doubt about unlocking phones to be perfectly legal and certainly not an act of "stealing"!
Opinions are not fact - when you buy you are agreeing to use it according to the terms of service - and those terms prohibit unlocking - read them if you have not. US contract law - which is what applies is very clear on this.
You have a choice - and the choice is to buy and use another phone/service...
As for the bricking - I believe it pretty clear by now that what Apple did was update it's software - they could care less what the update did to unlocks and hacks - and felt no obligation to write software that left unlocks and hacks intact - glad they did - and love the new version.
And the voiding of warranty is part of the same terms of service/sales agreement - that is what gives you a warranty - but it expressly notes unlocks and hacks void the warranty - not Apple the user.
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I am getting really tired of folks blaming others for their problems...
1. It is stealing to unlock an iPhone and use it on any other service - Apple
and AT&T have every right to expect the revenue from the two year service
agreeement.
2. It is Not stealing to not buy an iPhone - that is a viable alternative choice.
3. NO ONE forced anyone to download the update - those with unlocked phones
had been warned and still did the deed - THEY are too blame for their state
TWICE over...
Time for Apple to stand up the anarchists and hackers - you had your fun - you
can now resume trying to hack version 1.1.1
"It is stealing to unlock an iPhone and use it on any other service"
Flat out wrong. It's perfectly legal.
There is a debate over whether or not Apple's reaction to void people's warranty and brick their phones a legally-bound action; and it seems like it just might be fine. But there is no doubt about unlocking phones to be perfectly legal and certainly not an act of "stealing"!
Opinions are not fact - when you buy you are agreeing to use it according to the terms of service - and those terms prohibit unlocking - read them if you have not. US contract law - which is what applies is very clear on this.
You have a choice - and the choice is to buy and use another phone/service...
As for the bricking - I believe it pretty clear by now that what Apple did was update it's software - they could care less what the update did to unlocks and hacks - and felt no obligation to write software that left unlocks and hacks intact - glad they did - and love the new version.
And the voiding of warranty is part of the same terms of service/sales agreement - that is what gives you a warranty - but it expressly notes unlocks and hacks void the warranty - not Apple the user.