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Originally Posted by Steeroid  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? |
If you are among the idiots who did not heed official warnings from Apple, and the rest of the internet, you sure deserve a brick. And Apple played dirty. It was trivial for them to make sure that the unlocked phones did not get bricked(I know, and don't ask how?). They choose to brick them, and I hate them for that, and other reasons as well. While I have been developing software on the MAC for some time, I have never purchased any Apple stuff till now for personal use. ie, until I saw the iPhone. Believe me, I could not resist. And now that I have let go off the no MAC purchases funda, I am getting an Apple TV (
Apple - Apple TV at 399$ )as well.
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Originally Posted by Steeroid One of these days they will build in automatic updates into the latest firmware, and then you wont really have a choice. |
From a source similar to where you got that info from,
Airtel is getting the phones here in Jan. Bye Bye to HTC Touch.
Ok, kidding. I did not really make that up. Yesterday night a friend from the Ad Industry called up. And he wanted one right away. Reason? He says come January every cabbie will have it, might as well get it when it is still cool!
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Originally Posted by Steeroid 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. |
Apple iPhone / AT&T collusion under fire in Congress - future of network locked/bundled phones in question
And maybe this explains why some folks hate the iPhone?
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