Warren Oates wrote:
> In article <1191752196.86789@localhost.localdomain>,
> "Pete" <pete@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> The Owner of the iphone could have EASILY decided not to alter his firmware
>> in the 1st intance
>
> Daddy knows best?
Yes. Yes, he does.
Or, put another way: one incurs all the risk when one deliberately does
something that is explicitly unsupported. One is responsible for
anything that happens, good or bad, as a result of such hacking.
Blaming Apple is childish and illogical. The iPhone is obviously still
not running the most stable firmware (as is evidence by many of the
iPhone hackers) so any number of things can cause a massive upgrade like
this to cause things to go sideways.
Hacking is good, and should be encouraged, but smart hackers know they
can't ***** at the world if their hacking does something stupid. It is
something undertaken at one's own risk.
For ****'s sake. It's a /phone/. Go ahead and **** with it, just don't
****ing ***** about it when it the magic smoke leaves the device and it
turns into a paperweight. Anyone who ****ed with their iPhone and is
now blaming Apple when their precious phones crashed are a bunch of
whiners. Real hackers would look at this as just another fun challenge.
Bloody amateurs.
Let's recap:
- Folks bought iPhones knowing that a.) no third-party apps were
currently allowed and b.) it was locked to specific providers.
- Subverting this to unlock features, or allow other providers, or just
to hack is contrary to any agreement that Apple might honour.
Therefore, all responsibility for such subversion is completely upon
anyone /but/ Apple.
If you didn't want the above bullet points to apply to you, you had the
choice of not buying an iPhone. There are other phones out there, I'm
told. Maybe Nokia won't mind at all if you hack on one of their phones
without permission.
If you want to hack, you take responsibility for your actions. This is
especially so as you know full well that Apple does not have to take
your precious hacks into consideration, nor do they have to accept that
your hack is ok because you meant well, or were engaged in Noble Hacking
Intended To Free The Information For The People.
Any failure to understand these basic facts that leads to *****ing and
moaning about the Evil Apple Empire are obvious and fine targets for
derision and ridicule.
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