Comments on: iPhone unlocking explodes despite Apple's countermeasures

Despite company's attempts to make life harder for the unlocking community, the number of unlocked iPhones appears to be soaring.

[ifoster]

gap in function

A gap could also mean phones are not working or people are dissatisfied with the product. Why should Apple care what carrier handles service.

[ifoster]

ok so if used, Apple would miss out on some $

ok so if used, Apple would miss out on some $

[thedreaming]

The problem with Apple...

is that they not only make money from the sale of the iphone, they also make money from the activation of an iphone on the at&t network and for the icing on the cake, they also make money from each monthly bill. In their eyes, they are loosing out on alot of money due to people buying iphones and unlocking them.

[WJeansonne]

Appleheads are a screwy bunch.

They want their cake and eat it too. Don't they understand the futility in trying to screw with a company's business model. No doubt they are semi-anarchists or socialists out to disrupt business any way they can. What bunch of goofs.

[The_Decider]

Wow

Because people want to choose their own service they are socialist or anarchists?

What, if anything goes on between your ears.

How do we mere mortals screw with the holy and almighty business models!

[pan_nikdo]

Is this a quote from the PC geek in the commercial?

II think I saw this quote on an Apple commercial. Go ahead, drink
Microsoft's Kool-Aid, I dare ya!

[The_Decider]

What is the big deal with the iPhone?

The interface is a smudgy, unintuitive mess.

The features that people are using jailbreak for, already exist in cheaper phones.

It is not innovative, or a must have so it is just the hype people swallowed?

[DieSse]

Shows how c**p their marketing dept is.

Companies are forever telling us "we're giving our customers what they want" - and have large marketing departments to supposedly justify this.

So - either their marketing is c**p, or they ignore them anyway. Eother way, clearly their customers ain't getting what they clearly want. So quit fooling and tell it like it is.

[thsp]

Hacker Fan!!

I'd love an iPhone but AT&T has very poor phone quality where I
live. It seems anti-American to make us use AT&T for something
we've paid $400 or more for. Go Hackers!!

[markredf150]

maybe...

maybe Apple should look at this unlocking problem another way. Maybe Apple should start selling iPhones unlocked and create profit agreements with each of the carriers like they did with AT&T. This would probably work so much better, and Apple could probably sell more iPhones this way. Then again each carrier would have to revise their network to accomodate iPhone features like Visual Voicemail, et. al. Apple needs to do something and fast, if they want iPhone to continue to be profitable, because pretty soon at the rate of iPhones being unlocked, all Apple is going to make money off of is the sale of the device, they won't get their monthly cut from AT&T. I want to buy an iPhone myself but don't want to switch over to AT&T (I'm a Sprint customer). My contract expires in a month and that Red Blackberry Pearl is beginning to look mighty tempting right now as an upgrade, but I'd much rather have an iPhone if it was possible.

[inachu]

wHY OH WHY NO GAMES?

WHY WHY WHY?!?!?!?!

I am thinking perhaps the developers were old age or something thining that the iphone does not deserve youthful games and just old rotten people.

Sure just cut off an entire demographic!

[www.hdgreetings.com]

iPhone cards

You know not that many people are modifying sim cards to unlock their phone.

It's even hard to believe 30% of people are doing it with

[www.hdgreetings.com]

iPhone cards

whoops...

Anyway I was saying it's hard to believe more than a small percentage of people are willing to understand what unlocking is and take the trouble to do it.

Hopefully the proper SDK will be released soon and allow all of us to have much better apps.

[adfrex]

Pricing

As soon as apple stops ripping off customers by pricing the phone at almost 1000$+ in Europe, people in Europe may well stop unlocking the thing. I know around 20 iPhone users, none of these phones were bought in Europe, all of them came from the US.

[3rdalbum]

Apple caught with trousers around ankles

Apple is scared of the hacking community, and VERY scared of the cracking community. The iPhone currently runs all code as root, which is an incredibly insecure practice. In theory, the iPhone would remain secure because it's a closed platform. In reality though, jailbreaking opened the Pandora's Box and made it very possible for the world's most sought-after mobile phone to get viruses.

Apple's next firmware update for iPhone users attempts to close the Box and have a lot of code running under a limited user account; but they probably know that since the iPhone wasn't originally designed to keep the Russian Mafia out, that it's only a matter of time before crackers can recruit iPhones as part of a botnet.

[PostNoComments]

Apple is an accomplice in anti-consumer practice

If Internet providers locked computers to their service Apple
wouldn't mind making a sweetheart deal with them to take a cut of
the money. It's the same stupidity of locking the iPhone. Locking
phones should be illegal, period.

[live_free]

Where is the OUTRAGE aginst Apple?
If this were a Microsoft porduct and they signed an exclusive deal with At&T with the intent to not to have the open market with other carriers *>!t would hit the fan!

[superkamas]

If I buy a car & the manufacturer force me to use certain roots & not others, I would tell him to shove it. Or if Sony sold me a DVD player & restricted me to watch films made by say Warner Bros only. What do you think will happen?
Apple could have opened the iphone to all carriers & would have sold 100m iphones. They would have controlled the market within a year. Steve Jobs wake up starts facing economic realties.

[stefanius]

Hello. I want to unlock my Iphone. I found this site, http://www.iphoneunlockfast.com ,do you know? works?

[Bajamale]

I recently purchased a 3g iphone in Baja Ca. Mexico. I would like to unlock the phone so that when I travel to California i will be able to use a local carrier. This would save on roaming charges.
Once the iphone is unlocked then I would need to purchase a SIM card from a carrier in that given area. Is this correct ?
If this is correct, how do they bill me for my usage?
Once the iphone is unlocked will it show a different carrier service or what? What will I look for to see that I have sucessfuly unlocked the iphone?

[Chewbowski]

Apple won't listen.
Consumers are up in arms.
Please free the iPhone.