Not that it has not happened before, and it will certainly happen again, but with the new features on the new 3G iPhone and most definitely the new price of the new 3G iPhone will attract would be hackers to be the first to ‘unlock’ the new 3G iPhone.
The new 3G iPhone is everything that the first generation iPhone is and a little bit more. The new 3G iPhone sports a new back cover (available in black and white on the 16gig model), GPS, and the quick 3G system for all your internet loving needs. These features, along with better battery life, will no doubt give iPhone haters something more to talk about.
But why will Apple be sued? Well at $199 everyone and their dogs will still sport the new 3G iPhone and suddenly realize that you MUST sign up for an AT&T wireless service (for at least two years.) Let the unlocking begin, and it shall end with a 3G iBrick.
Some Apple blogs are already posting information regarding AT& T and Apple’s crackdown on keeping their product strictly theirs by requiring all activations to be done in an Apple store (very inconvenient) and applying non-activation fees for buyers who have purchased an 3G iPhone but has not activated it yet. Reuters reports:
There would be penalties for users who do not activate the iPhone in the first 30 days, AT&T said, in a move aimed at reducing the number of customers who buy an iPhone and tweak the software so they can use it on another network.
Companies like Microsoft has already been battling illegal software piracy by requiring activation or their operating system will cease to operate in 30 days, but however sophicated the process is for software developers there are always work-a-rounds.
Can AT&T and Apple really get away with accessing fees for customers who purchase iPhones without activation? Highly doubtful. There will definitely be lawyers visiting Apple stores across the nation listening in to new Apple customers who wants their iPhone and their wireless carrier of their choice.
What’s left on the 3G iPhone scene: more unlocking codes and more bricking.
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