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“‘Apple strongly cautions against installing any software that hacks the OS,’ Apple says in a bulletin on its support forum,” McDougall reports. “‘It is also important to note that unauthorized modification of the iOS is a violation of the Phone end-user license agreement and because of this, Apple may deny service for an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that has installed any unauthorized software,’ the note states.”
McDougall reports, “The note was published last month, prior to the Library of Congress’ ruling that jailbreaking is not a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and is therefore legal. But the fact that the warning remains on Apple’s support site indicates the company does not believe the ruling supercedes the terms of the iPhone EULA.”
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I wish they could brick them so we wouldn’t have to read their rants here. You folks break all your contracts? That is okay with you? What if manufacturers decided to not honor their warranties and contracts and told you it is your device now, you figure out how why it broke. Seem fair to me.
@TheConfuzed1:
“I sense a disturbance in the force.
This is a bad idea on Apple’s part. I can see it opening them up to a class action suit.”
Another “potential” lawsuit… Get in line.
@MDN: At least read enough of the article to see that “brick” is not at all what this is about.
Sheesh guys. Apple may deny service/support, not brick anything.
I had no choice but to jailbreak my iPod. Hackers stole $65 from my iTunes account and Apple did nothing to help me restore my account balance. No way I’m putting more credits on that account. Maybe when they implement basic security measures like sending an email to verify account changes or at least alerting me when somebody from China changes my login, password, email, and security question. Then I might consider it.
NOT!!!
“I jailbreak for one reason only, and that’s so I can use my phone as a WiFi hotspot. I pay for the phone, I pay for the data, I really don’t see what the problem is.”
Really? You don’t see any problem with using a connection for which the system has allocated a certain amount of bandwidth to pass several times that amount of traffic, or that a million people might do that very same thing at any given time?
Well, here’s a little message for Apple. You brick my phone, and watch how fast I pay that early termination fee and buy a Droid.
You make good products; don’t screw it up by being heavy handed control freaks.
” think the courts will get busy real soon on this.” —you cant win MDN:
This is bullshit. It’s not against the law to modify the engine of your new car either, but doing so will void the warranty. Simple as that.
Die frivolous-lawsuit-crazy scum!
No idont see a problem with using my iPhone as a wifi hotspot. AT&T is the only carrier who does not allow this. I know many carriers don’t block using your iPhone as a wifi hotspot. And using the iPhone as a wifi hotspot for my iPad is adding no more bandwidth then using my iPad on the network if I had a 3G iPad.
Why is this surprising; you can compute any way you want with Apple, so long as it’s exactly how Steve Jobs says you can compute.
Think Different and all that bullshit.
This site is driving me nuts anymore, so, I’ve decided to stop visiting. Not only are the MacDailyNews folks one-sided, but also, it seems most of the readers are the same.
First off, I’m a HUGE Apple fan. I spent, on average, $5,000, a year on Apple products, sometimes more. I LOVE my Macs, iPads, iPhones, iPods, and numerous accessories.
With that said, I also feel when I purchase this hardware, it is mine to use as I see fit. One size does not fit all. If someone does not want to jailbreak their device, that’s cool. If someone wants to jailbreak their device, that’s cool too. It is called FREEDOM people!
Basically, get a life. Worry about your own business and stay out of everyone else’s. If someone wants to jailbreak, who cares. They’re jailbreaking THEIR device, NOT YOURS!
Two words
Shut up.
It is now legal in US.
We live outside the US. I now have a jailbroken v1 phone from a relative who has upgraded to a new one (which he won’t jailbreak because the iPhone has since become available unlocked in our country). The only reason the original was jailbroken was because he works in a number of different countries for extended periods of time and just wants to switch local pay-as-you-go SIMs in and out.
I want to get this old phone un-jailbroken and restored. I am not worried about Apple “bricking” it. I am worried about the unlocked vs locked issue (which I understand amounts to the phone being bricked). I can’t find a clear answer: will it revert to a locked to ATT status that it might have had from the factory? Is this an issue? Is there a way out of this. The phone is 3 yrs old.
He got it in the US at full price when the iPhone launched and it was unavailable elsewhere. I believe it was unactivated (I think Apple Stores were allowing some activation to be done online at home due to busyness). Would it have been “locked” to ATT even though unactivated? It was subsequently jailbroken in Europe.
I would be very happy to have this as a normal, un-jailbroken iPhone to use properly alongside my iPod and iPad; but obviously I don’t want to risk a problem if this locking thing is an issue and it’s just going to revert to being locked to ATT.
Any advice would be welcome. Thanks.
@Bryan
You may ‘own’ the hardware, but you do not ‘own’ the software that runs on it. You are granted a license to use that software, but in effect, the developer ‘owns’ it.
Apple can scare you but they can’t disable your iphone if you jailbreak it. If they do then they’ll have some lawsuits to deal with and some extremely bad press.
They aren’t stupid. They’re bluffing. All they can do is deny warranty work but since all you have to do is restore it then that’s not a problem.
@ unsure–
Each version of the firmware, and each jailbreak/ unlock method has different results as to whether or not your unlock will survive a restore.
Most likely, if you undo the jailbreak, you will undo your unlock to, and your phone, without the unlock, will only work with ATT.
Fortunately, it’s an easy process to jailbreak and unlock it again if you want to.
I can’t believe that many of you are still supporting Apple after the company is playing you for fools.
I guess some people will always remain fools.
It is legal. Apple has no standing on the matter. Clearly the Library of Congress considered all aspects of this prior to making the ruling. Apple has no legal argument that their walled garden should exist.
Say what you want about those who choose to jail break their phones, I’m sure they would tell you exactly where to go as well. Unless Apple can prove that the actual process or a specific app caused damaged to the phone they will have yet another class action lawsuit against them.
Before anyone tries to trash me on this, I have owned about 9 iPods (HDD, Nano, Touches), picked up the iP4 and sold my Android phone and I just replaced my iMac with a new MBP and 24″ cinema. So yeah I own enough Apple to qualify to make my argument.
I purchased the phone, and no where did I see any included documentation when I booted up my phone and no where did I get told by AT&T I couldn’t do it so brick me, I will just file a complaint with the FTC, FCC, Library of Congress, Chuck Schumer, etc.
They [Apple] should take responsibility when a provider like Fido (Roger’s sister company) in Canada sells their clients–like me–a LOCKED phone which is ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE LOCKED IF PURCHASED AT A SUBSIDIZED PRICE when they–I–paid FULL UNSUBSIDIZED PRICE (C$799 +taxes) in order to have freedom to use it abroad without paying–$188,000.00/GB–roaming charges, and then charging that client who PAID FOR AN UNLOCKED PHONE $4000 in roaming charges EVEN THOUGH THEY’RE AT FAULT!!! THAT’s how much Apple “cares” about their customers. And that’s how fair the ALLEGED law is! FIDO are GUILTY of FRAUD and Apple, in my mind, are willing accomplices.
I ONLY JAILBREAK TO UNLOCK MY PHONE WHICH IS NOT UNLOCKED EVEN THOUGH I PAID FULL UNSUBSIDIZED PRICE FOR IT!!!!!!!!
“It is legal. Apple has no standing on the matter. Clearly the Library of Congress considered all aspects of this prior to making the ruling. Apple has no legal argument that their walled garden should exist.”
It IS legal for you to unlock the phone. It is also legal for Apple to refuse to service a phone that has been unlocked, as you can theoretically install software that will harm the phone. They have no responsibility to service or replace a phone you have modified in an unsupported way. Just as was pointed out before – it is legal for you to modify the engine in your car, but it is also legal for the manufacturer to no longer honor the warranty if you do.
Anyone notice the astroturf troll theme of boasting of how many Apple products they own. It beggars credibiltiy.
I use to jailbreak in the past with OS 3.X but iOS 4 has givin all the features i use to jailbreak for… so i have a virgin iphone 4 that will remind untouched
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If anything apple should embrace the jail breaking community that made apple step up their game long before f*cking android came out.
Yes I believe they should go after those who steal apps from the app store and who do harm to others property. No argument there.
But for those us who jailbreak to open the TRUE potential of the iPhone. Jeez you people who have never jail broken your iPhone should try it at least once add SBsettings and see how convenient it is. Add quick reply and you too would be screaming at apple to add that functionality. There is a whole lot more you can don than what apple provides. Sh!t i’ve been multitasking for two years now thanks to jail breaking. My iPad is way sweeter than what came out of the box.
What I am saying is don’t trash the jailbreak community, because with out them you wouldn’t have “multitasking”, copy and paste, Better bluetooth functions, video recording and so much more because yes whether apple admits or not the jail breakers pushed apple to be better.
So apple piss off with your scare tactics and let us have push your product because we your customers a your best PR, word of mouthnand we can show people what your shit can really do if you let us.
How the heck does the Library of Congress have any authority to make a ruling concerning DMCA? It would be up to Congress I’d assume. Am I wrong?
Just thought I’d share my story…last night I got curious and did the whole jailbreakme.com thing on my ip4. It worked, and I was amused for about 25 minutes then realized how corny and ugly everything was and decided I was perfectly satisfied with my phone the way it was…so I went to restore and my beautiful 30 day old ip4 was bricked as bricked could be. I couldn’t even recover through iTunes as the phone would actually take itself out of recovery mode. I had the reboot screen of death. So today I bought myself a 3GS with an added line to my plan. I can only wait now til the iPhone 4s are back in stock. And I wasn’t even going to attempt to bring the phone to the apple store..out of shame mostly. The perfect world apple has us safetly nestled in will no longer be taken forgranted by me that’s for sure. Learned my lesson, jailbreakings dumb and not worth it.
JailBreaking prodvides a sense of danger and intrigue that is common with windoze.
What’s more, it satisfies the need to “tinker” that the regular iPhone experience lacks (on purpose).
I think apple is way ahead of them and uses the dev community as a laboratory. By playing along as the bad guy, it entices an otherwise recalcitrant group to embrace the platform anyway.
I also think that apple has found a way for deep seated Mac haters to come into the fold.
By creating a new computing paradigm that is called “iOS” they have neutralized the basic distaste that many, many windoze sufferers have for the iDea of finally capitulating after decades of fighting.
They will all succumb to the siren call of California’s home grown vision for the future!