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Apple to try fight iPhone being unlocked

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2377

“It’s a cat-and-mouse game,” Jobs remarked at the UK unveiling of the iPhone yesterday in London. “We try to stay ahead. People will try to break in, and it’s our job to stop them breaking in.”

“At the moment, as a consumer, you need to be very careful about unlocking the iPhone, and know how you want to use it,” said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi, who attended the presentation. “If you unlock it, you are not going to have a flat rate, and you will not have access to the 7,500 hot spots.”

It will be interesting to see how we manage the whole unlocking aspect when it comes to iPhone, in the normal handset world you can buy the phone offline, so locking the phone is a network dependent activity, trying to prevent people unlocking the iPhone might be a time consuming activity. We’ll see.




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2 comments to Apple to try fight iPhone being unlocked

  • bsdice

    Why buy a piece of hardware that is limiting your freedom in any way just because Steve Jobs decided so. I won’t be one in line to buy it, then.

  • Have just spoken to a colleague that has an iPhone and loves it – suggested I needed one, we’ll need to see..

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