On 10/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bryan Baker</b> <<a href="mailto:ka_klick@mac.com">ka_klick@mac.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
See this Daring Fireball <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2007/10/">http://daringfireball.net/2007/10/</a><br>un_in_unsupported - frankly I agree with him (Gruber).<br><br>On Oct 12, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Bill Davis wrote:<br>
> Apple's update also disabled any phone that was unlocked. Lawsuits<br>> have started about that last bit! I hope Apple loses, frankly.<br></blockquote></div><br>From tfa:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
The point isn't that you shouldn't hack, or that you don't have the right to do whatever you want with something you own. The point is that if you hack, you're on your own. You can't do unsupported things and expect to be supported for them just because you think these actions should be supported. It's that simple.
<br></blockquote><br>The problem is far more deeply rooted, and revealed in the mis-statement/implication that you own your iphone (which, arguably, we'll define as the combination of the phone and the system software).
<br><br>People feel, rightly so, that if you go spend $400 for a widget to carry around with you that the widget is yours. Likewise, that if you buy a program for your pc or a song to listen to that this software is yours.
<br><br>What you have purchased is a few ounces of plastic and silicon AND Apple's permission to use the software, without which the iphone's value is slightly less than a banana of equivalent size and heft. Unfortunately the permission comes with strings attached.
<br><br>I've come seriously close to buying an iPhone a couple times now, and would enjoy the unique productivity benefits it yields, but the attached strings make me hesitate. (for example, I'd like it to be a voice recorder too, and while there are hacks available, this feature is not inbuilt and there's no assurance the hack's will continue to work the day after I buy it).
<br><br>Interestingly, the cost of the device seems to be what makes people so passionate about it. If you buy the $39 phone no one complains about not being able to install software on it or use it with another carrier. But at an order of magnitude more expensive, people expect more.
<br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode