Consumers who thought they could outsmart Apple were were sadly mistaken. The latest Apple updates erase unauthorized software and may potentially cause iPhones to self-distruct.
Altered iPhones Freeze Up
By: Katie Hafner
New York Times
Published: Sept. 29, 2007
Since the iPhone hit the market in June, tech-savvy owners of the phone have been busy messing with its insides, figuring out how to add unauthorized software and even “unlock” it for use on networks other than AT&T’s.
But the Web was filled Friday with complaints from people who had installed the latest iPhone software update, only to see all the fun little programs they had been adding to their iPhones disappear — or, still worse, see their phones freeze up entirely…. Apple officials have been warning iPhone owners that using unlocking software could cause the phone to become 'permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed.' But in many cases those warnings went unheeded".... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/technology/29iphone.html?ref=technology
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