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iPhone 1.1.3 Update Confirmed, Breaks Apps and Unlocks
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo has gathered conclusive evidence which confirms that the iPhone Firmware 1.1.3 update is 100% real. It installs only from iTunes using the obligatory Apple private encryption key, which nobody has. The list of new features, like GPS-like triangulation positioning in Google Maps, has been confirmed too. Apparently it will be coming out next week, but there's bad news as expected: it breaks the unlocks, patches the previous vulnerabilities used by hackers and takes away all your third-party applications."
If you want to read what Nokia does on E90 to cage the customer then have a look at what happened when I tried to import my old 9110i Contacts into my new E90
Companies wants to retain control over devices they sell, they want to lock you into it as much as they can, by the sheer pressure of customers Apple will provide a toolkit, but in the name of SECURITY they will decide what application will be able to run on the machine.
Customers should be aware that the data they produce and own are caged into a device that is under control of somebody else !
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.