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Upcoming Firmware Will Brick Unlocked iPhones
iCry writes "It was rumored last week, and Apple has now confirmed it: 'Apple said today that a firmware update to the iPhone due to be released later this week "will likely result" in SIM-unlocked iPhones turning into very expensive bricks... So what are users of SIM-unlocked iPhones to do? Not run the latest software update, that's for sure. Users can instead pray to the hacking deities — the famed iPhone Dev Team that released the free software unlock, and iPhoneSIMfree, which released a commercial software unlock — to write applications that will undo the unlocks, as it were, if those users want to run the latest iPhone software.'"
That rock is missing wifi, so can not be described as "feature full"
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Principles. Principles. It is not that hard...
By your logic, they shouldn't test things like Adobe when they release an operating system then? Because, you know, all the Macs are the same.
yet they spend a lot of money on that sort of triage in order to make the user experience "seamless" between versions. I feel as if your argument holds no water.