People seem to have misinterpreted my
"dead cow" analogy and are assuming that I bricked my iPhone. Nope. I have both the original iPhone, upgraded to 1.1.1, and the unlocked iPhone still and forever at 1.0.2. I'm donating the latter to
The Lab for further experimentation. I'll keep the locked phone around so I can continue to cover the platform, which was the reason I bought it in the first place.
It's not for myself that I am whining, or even others I know whose phone were bricked. My point is that it's punitive for Apple to intentionally damage unlocked iPhones, and I believe that's wrong.
To those who say we can't know Apple's intention, I'd respond that it would have been a simple bit of coding to checksum the modem firmware and refuse to update if it had been modified. In fact, that would have been a prudent precaution no matter what. By choosing not to do so Apple is making its intent clear, and absent any statement to the contrary from Cupertino I'm going to continue to think Apple wishes unlockers ill, no matter what
Fake Steve Jobs says.
To prove I still have a working iPhone, here are two pictures from my hotel window in Vancouver. One with the iPhone and one with the Nokia N95. You tell me which you prefer.
Nokia
Apple
Oh, and incidentally on the Nokia and the unlocked iPhone uploading these images in full quality to Flickr takes one click using third party apps (
ShoZu on the N95 and
Send Picture on the iPhone). On the locked iPhone I had to dock to my Mac, import the photo into iPhoto, export it, and
then upload to Flickr. That's one of the reasons I want to be able add third-party apps to my mobile phones.
Now I'm going to run to the Fatburger next door and have a veggie burger. No more dead cows for me. Good night.
Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 5:46PM 
