http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/ Engadget Comments for iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007, 12:00PM EDT http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/

Oh as soon as the software is out expect a fix from Apple. They will not let this one go by. ]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
No they won't. Apple makes royalties from AT&T through their exclusivity agreement. Apple makes money on the phones, but they stand to lose royalties if people start unlocking their phones. You can bet they'll patch this quickly.]]>Aug 24th 2007 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
Henna
http://www.prankvideoz.com]]>Aug 27th 2007 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Yes, but this now means you don't have to sign a two year contract in order to get an iPhone!]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 25th 2007 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 28th 2007 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
Gratz iPhoneSIMfree.]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
Why wood i want the crappy i phone on anothur network it's no way gonna work. I think this story is a load of bull]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
Anyways, this is awesome, once i get the scratch and know this works for sure i can have my iPhone on my $39.99/mo T-Mobile plan with more minutes, unlimited night/weekends. The major downfall is that i would need to sign up for the AT&T service, then cancel it (thats not cheap).

But if someone has an iPhone and doesn't want/need EDGE (or visual voicemail, and thats what callwave is for ;)) then this is a great way to sneak your iPhone in onto a network you actually like. i'm not going to bash them but i've never had a good experience with at&t/cingular and i'm glad that now I at least have some sort of option of a provider i like.

As for validity, this is engadget, not John Q. Hacker's Blogspot. I have no reason to believe this is a hoax because the first person to be skeptical would be engadget. [checks date] even if it was a joke, i doubt August 24th is August Fools day [checks google's logo] nope, it isn't.

Anyways, to sum it up. Stop bitching about not having an iPhone. This is probably the best story so far this week, if you don't want to read iPhone/Apple related stories stop reading them.

-_-]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/i think this is awesome and a real landmark for iphone hackers]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Apple: 0]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
ot- Tom Hands, any relation??]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
Hackers: 5
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This won't hurt Apple in any way, it will hurt AT&T, but this will only encourage more people to buy iPhones. Apple will only profit from the unlocking possibility.]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Oh and I don't know of any Rons in the family, plus I live in the UK.]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Explain to me exactly which grounds a cease and desist order would be based on? AT&T has a contract with APPLE to be the sole carrier, not with the general public or a purchaser of the iPhone. AT&T could therefore not bring a claim for cease and desist based on contract principles (maybe they could claim for breach of contract against Apple for failure take adequate precautions to prevent the phone from being unlocked, but that wouldn't stop 3rd parties from unlocking the phone). Therefore, there are no contract grounds on which to bring a claim.

So, exactly which grounds are you basing this statement on? Do you propose that AT&T can just come and say "stop interfering with my monopoly on the iPhone service"? If so, you're completely wrong. While they can include terms in the purchase and sale agreement disclaiming the warranty for doing things such as this, how the hell do you propose they stop someone from tinkering with their own damn property?? Come on!]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Apple: 0"

No big deal. When Apple is ready they just simple zap the PRAM to reset the counter back to 0/0

:D]]>Aug 24th 2007 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
The Software is still attached to the device it was meant for, and the license for the use of the device is not violated.]]>Aug 24th 2007 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Apple: 190832890123
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(This is where that rule actually comes in. When it first came out, most people misread it and thought it said that the carrier would have to help you. Not true at all, of course. The rule does say that if YOU want, you can do so without having the DMCA thrown in your face.)]]>Aug 24th 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/Aug 24th 2007 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
apple $10000000

Apple makes out in the long run on this. Win win for them.

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lol that was funny]]>Aug 24th 2007 3:43PM