September 12th, 2007
You're Steve Jobs. What are you going to do about all these iPhone hacks?
As has already been widely posted in the last 12 hours or so, the iPhoneDev team has put up a free, open source iPhone unlock software utility. It works, but no one is guaranteeing that your iPhone will lovingly accept it without firing up whatever internal antibodies it may be able to muster.
A successful install, as already tested by Engadget (screencap and link above) will free an iPhone from its AT&T shackles.
That would be a nearly five-year shackle at this point. A shackle that one has to assume is a key point in the ATT-Apple contract to sell the iPhone.
Proprietary-culture oriented, litigiously-minded Apple and their CEO, one Mr. Jobs, can’t be too pleased about all these hacks.
So let’s say you are Steve Jobs for a day. And that day is today.
Loading ...Russell Shaw is an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
