“Don’t say you weren’t warned. After cautioning customers earlier this week that unlocked iPhones may be disabled when installing future Apple software updates, the company on Thursday made good on its warning,” Jim Dalrymple reports for Macworld.
“Two iPhones in the Macworld offices that had the SIM hacks applied to them were disabled after installing iPhone Update 1.1.1,” Dalrymple reports.
According to Dalrymple, users “could not navigate through the iPhone’s menu” and “the ‘Slide for Emergency’ slider is the only thing available after installing the update. This allows customers to make emergency calls only.”
More in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “NeverFade” for the heads up.]
…that people should talk about litigating against the company they got the software hack from not Apple.
The headline should read “Apple assrapes iPhone customers again, MDN fanboys report that they enjoyed it.”
I should have seen this coming, but why is everyone trying to unlock the Iphone anyway? It has no new features from any other phones and it has an operating system from apple. Couldn’t you just buy a better phone that is cheaper and does the same things without restricting you with apple and at&t;? As this has shown, if you unlocked the iphone, you were free from at&t;, but not from apple.