Re: Apple Spreads Firmware Virus To Disable iPhones

In article <s_ULi.3966$T6.1049@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"zara" <zeero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"witfal" <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2007-09-30 12:42:16 -0700, "John" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> said:


"Snit" <CSMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"John Slade" <hhitman86@xxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
RJSLi.1021$ih1.181@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 9/30/07 12:24 PM:

I had a suspicion that Apple would issue a firmware upgrade laced
with
a virus

And you were wrong.

OK.


--
"If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish
thing."
- Anatole France





Actually he is right. The latest 1.1.1 fimware release PERMANENTLY
disables iPhones that were modded to work on other than the ATT network.
Even if the software is restored to an earlier the phone will not work
because Apple has permanently disabled the ability to rewrite firmware.
The only fix is to replace actual compnents within the phone which Apple
refuses to do. Therefore the phone can only be thrown in the garbage
can.

Which is hardly a virus. Call it the protection of intellectual property.

Bullshit!! If you pay for it - you own it.

I'll bet you'd say that to the portrait photographer who took your photo.

Not to mention the photog who took the photos for your ZERO brochure.

--
Jim
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