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Originally Posted by tadukuttan  Sure they will come with the new firmware, at least after the current stocks in retail stores are exhausted. But, why do you think the new firmware will never be cracked? It has been just some 3 days since the new one came out, give the "dev team" some time... |
Yup and soon Apple with come up with newer firmware and you will have to wait again for your development team. You dont really want to end up with an on-and-off-and-on phone, do you?
One of these days they will build in automatic updates into the latest firmware, and then you wont really have a choice.
Apple's marketing strategy is to partner with carriers and not to drive sales through their own distribution network alone. As long as this strategy is in place you will have carrier-specific firmware, and carriers will continue to demand that the phone is locked to their network because they are subsidising the cost of the hardware. I know we would demand that if we were to partner with Apple.