Its all about money and keeping it on ONE carrier. Artificial supply and demand, if you keep it locked to one carrier, people would flock to that carrier even though they charge you an arm and a leg for a two year contract. Its like why would you buy a hot dog from a vendor down the street when you know full well that one across the street is $2 cheaper. If you give customers choice, it will usually end up being the cheaper of the choices which means less profit all around.
The Razr was the best example. It was the crappiest phone when it first came out but people were wiling to shell 600 for it. Give people the choice of where to get the razr and the price fell like a rock.
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Originally Posted by timbo
Has Apple release any sort of statement today aside from the warning in the update? Any sort of explanation or reasoning to why they would do this to their customers. Most of the people that are effected by this are early adopter and people who were already screwed by the price drop. Double F#CKED. Apple should be praising there brave and loyal early adopters not SH#TING on us!!!!!!
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They haven't done anything to early adopters except for those early adopters who jail broke the phone, otherwise Apple hasn't done anything wrong. You knew from the beginning that prices do drop, your phone isn't gonna say expensive forever and your Iphone is probably gonna be worthless next year when Apple pushes a new model out. Thats how tecnology is, you can never keep up with it in terms of cellphones or anything. What you have today, might not even be worth as much when you got it. Look at cars, TVs, Ipods, consoles. I still no idea why Steve Jobs gave out credits, that means EVERY company should give out credits when a price drop happens. You pay the price for being an early adopter and you live by it.
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I think we should be able to do anything we want with what we purchased and own.
HOWEVER, I also think it is not like we weren't warned ahead of time "this works on THIS CARRIER only". Doing anything aside of buying it, activating it through at&t and using it stock is just pissing into the wind.
Being an owner of a heavily modded, but not unlocked phone, I obviously support the option to mod the heck out of it.... unlocking it is not of my concerns so I'll let other fight that battle. Apple doesn't seem to care when OSX is modded with widgets, why care when Iphone OSX is? Leave the modders alone... fight your battle with the unlockers.
Fact is if people didn't unlock it, they wouldn't be aggressively killing our third part apps. That's all they care about is staying on contract, but nooo the only way to get off contract is 3rd party apps.....
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I feel that later on, they might not be able to write the baseband anymore. Though they might figure a way to hack the Iphone to run 3rd party software, making it SimFree might not happen.
You have to see that its probably not the AnySim or Sim unlock software that is the main concern for apple, they probably know it doesn't do much harm to the phone. Its the issue of those 3rd party apps. Some of them can be unstable and I have read somewhere someone actually made a virus for the PSP and when people using homebrew uploaded it, complete bricked their PSP. So to prevent 100+ people running to them when a third party app bricks the phone, they outright say that ALL 3rd party apps (even the AnySims) should not be on the phone. Just to save themselves the hassle.
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