Thread: Brick Iphones
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Laughingstok is offline Laughingstok
2007-09-30 , 15:22
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Originally Posted by gigabites View Post
hahahahhah good for apple!

people were warned, no one held a gun to their head to hack their iphone, no one held a gun to their head to make them update their iphone and when you did hack you iphone, you some how had to know "this will screw something up somewhere" (otherwise it's not a hack, duh).

"may void warranty" applies to most products we buy. Apple is doing no different. If I had a new diesel truck and convert it to use biodiesel and it suddenly stops running, is the truck manufacturer or oil company liable? hahaha of course not.

You may hate apple for whatever reason but they said, the iphone isn't ready for 3rd parts apps officially, and it's just AT&T for now. You buck the system, you take a risk. This may change in the future but for now, it's "We told ya so".
We all hack the crap out of our Nokia's and Nokia is all for it. They even designed the flashing around this concept and have delicious backups allowed. It's impossible to truly brick an n800 without throwing it I suppose and nokia goes into the market with the mindset that people will tinker with their toys. Imagine if IBM or DELL screwed over your laptop because you installed one OS over another.

There are a lot of ways to argue this, but the bottom line is apple needs to be more aware of their market...period. If you've got 10% of your customer base downloading and installing (stat pulled from article on first page) third party apps, that's a HUGE share in any mindset when talking about the overall reaching scope of friends and family who will now be turned off from Apple in the future.
You guys can sit by and smugly clap your hands that apple "got back" at the "hackers" but a majority are just average schmoes looking to improve something they own. Any market where upgrading software or hardware is done should be done on a complete overhaul level so destruction of now private property does not occur.

(This post written entirely on n800 with virtual keyboard... whew!)