[IP] Re: Running Any Third Party iPhone Apps? Bye-Bye Warranty!

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Warren Magnus <wmagnus@samespace.com>
Date: September 25, 2007 1:23:08 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:  Running Any Third Party iPhone Apps? Bye-Bye  
Warranty!

Ok, so Apple isn't going to intentionally brick iPhones. How does the  
saber rattling change the clear contempt for their customers?

No unlocked iPhones because Apple wants the monthly revs from AT&T.  
No third party software because Apple wants control and their slice  
of the ringtone business. This isn't a handy consumer device, it's a  
shiny conduit to send money to Apple every month forever. Maybe if  
they'd just send me a monthly statement with a line item that says,  
"Making you look cool $60." It would be more fundamentally honest.

Really, though, this "licensing" of software on devices that you  
purchase has got to stop. Either I bought it or I didn't. The  
inability of Apple to easily "unbrick" a flash ROM based device is a  
design flaw for which they should not blame edge case consumers.

-W


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