The latest darling of the technoid digerati, the iPhone,has been unlocked!! (Endgadget Report)! Took 2 months,which is very good considering needing 5-600 bucks to play,(the cost of an iPhone),and the possibility of turning it into a paperweight.
Normally unlocking these gadgets requires you to take them apart,muck about inside,and hope for the best when you turn them on. Which limits these types of hacks. However,in this case,the folks at iPhonesimfree.com have developed a software solution making this a much more useful unlock.
Apple and AT&T are having a cow right now,and are cranking up the lawyers to whack a mole over this 17 year old kid. Probably a DMCA suit. Like DVD John did with DeCSS. This is a typical response to having an adolescent take your multi million dollar revenue pipeline,and blowing a big hole in it.
Every electronic device that does anything,is controlled by software consisting of ones and zeros. Figure out how it barks like a dog,move the ones and zeros around,make it quack like a duck.
The iPhone is a device. A communication device. Apple is harvesting the fruits of it’s well deserved reputation of amazing design,and is commanding a premium for it’s iPhone currently,but like every other communication device and electronic gizmo,the race to commodity status is on,with every electronic manufacturer on the planet,moving to market. Apple was smart enough to port it’s OS to run on Intel machines,which will bear fruit much longer than the iPhone.
AT&T in particular,and the other phone companies in aggregate on the other hand,has learned nothing about communication,ignoring it’s own history,(remember Capt. Crunch and phone phreaking?),still insisting that they can build walled garden networks,and charge by the bit,which they have spent an enormous amount time and effort,figuring out how to collect and list that information. 300 page phone bills indeed!
At the end of the day,today and tomorrow,it is ones and zeros. Connect the dots…..
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