iPhone or Paperweight?

Apple said in a recent article that if you hacked into your iPhone to unlock it, you could end up with a $600 paperweight after they push out the new software updates later this week. The updates will add features that will enable that iPhone to access the iTunes Wi-Fi music store. Apple claims that once the software is installed the touch screen interface that controls that phone will not work properly or may become fully disabled.
Apple claims that their software updates have nothing to with causing the hacked iPhones to become disabled. Now come on! If you believe that you’re pretty naive in my option; Apple knows exactly what they are doing. This is a way for them to make peace with AT&T, since they were the only carrier to have the iPhone and put the screws to anyone who has hacked their own device.
I have to agree with John McLaughlin of Uniquephones.com, in Northern Ireland. He said in the article that Apple is using this as a scare tactic to make people who hacked their iPhones think that they now own nothing more than a useless chunk of plastic. McLaughlin goes on by saying that all that iPhones that have been hacked and unlocked can be put back into working order. He also says that any changes done to the software of the iPhone to unlock it can easy be reversed and that minimal effort is needed to get the phone back into its original locked state. However, Apple claims that as with any product that they offer, hacking the iPhone will void the factory warranty.

To read the full article, go to: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/09/24/ap4151246.html