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Subject: [IP] Altered iPhones Freeze Up - New York Times By KATIE HAFNER

From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
To: ip@v2.listbox.com
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:52:10 -0400

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/technology/29iphone.html

The best quote is

Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, has said the company wanted to maintain control over the iPhone’s functions to protect carrier networks and to make sure the phone was not damaged.

Just like Ma Bell used to say when you wanted to connect a non Bell phone.