Your point of view is flawed. Apple could always revert to the old "reset the phone" to resolve whatever problem the user has.

Under your logic, Microsoft should not allow any software not coming from them to run under the Windows OS ;-)...

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At several hundred dollars for a device that costs no more than $50 to produce, There's lots of margin for technical support. The question is whether Apple has the legal authority to lock the purchasers of it's devices into AT&T's service. The telecom competition laws of the US say no. Whether Apple...

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Apple can simply refuse to provide service on modified phones.

That's normal practice; nobody would object to that....

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Next thing you might say that Microsoft needs to lock Windows OS to not allow other software?...

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Fsck Apple. I as a consumer need to do as I wish with my private property.

There is a very big difference between only providing support for devices which are untampered and the deliberate, willful, and malicious destruction of someone else's property.

If people spent a little more time worry...

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The issue is Apple is not allowing you to use their phone on another network.

If you think it's for quality control, you have no clue of the law....

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In that case they should input something in the terms of service...don't go around breaking something that someone paid hundreds of dollars for. Thats crap, imagine if you had a car with big rims or a nice sterio system installed and you took your vehicle to the dealership to get serviced and they ...

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The U.S. office in charge of creating allowed exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has granted researchers the right to hack the security preventing interoperability of wireless phones with other carriers' networks and to reverse engineer the digital rights management on audio C...

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I don't believe Sony has ever deliberately destroyed people's personal property.

I haven't seen an iPhone hack that either: circumvents a measure that prevents unauthorized access to a copyrighted work, or circumvents a measure that prevents the unauthorized copying of a copyrighted work.

How ...

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youo don't think they purposefully bricked phones? they got so paranoid about it, they even bricked phones that *weren't* modified... makes me wanna see the update's source code, so i can look and see where they do a checksum of the os, followed by a nice clean wipe if it doesn't match.

shame on ...

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