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Thread ID: 83426	2007-10-01 17:26:00	iBrick Update	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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596876	2007-10-01 17:26:00	AT&T’s policy on unlocking phones...read it and weep (blogs.zdnet.com):mad: ...and here (blogs.zdnet.com) (be careful if your country of origin does NOT allow this....it IS legal in the US and Europe though)	SurferJoe46 (51)
596877	2007-10-01 21:43:00	The situation changes with every heartbeat: here's the latest in the "big rat gets the cheese" game between Apple and the iPhone hackers . Last week's firmware update that bricked iPhones that had been unlocked to use services other than AT&T's had the hacking community taking the weekend to come up with some ways to return a bricked unit to fully usable condition . Still in the whitehat pipeline are "repairs" to unlock an iPhone regardless of which Apple firmware version it's running . Now guess what? Nokia looks to capitalize on Apple's troubles with a new campaign for its Nseries phones emphasizing that they are "open to applications, open to widgets, open to anything . . even usable as a phone again . " :lol: Apple ate its own words used against it in a viral video that lauds all those rebels who created third-party apps for the iPhone . Having a hissy, the Apple-Bonking Turks are all a-tizzy over this news and the hand-wringing is about to get serious .	SurferJoe46 (51)
596878	2007-10-02 01:12:00	Still in the whitehat pipeline are "repairs" to unlock an iPhone regardless of which Apple firmware version it's running . Now guess what? Nokia looks to capitalize on Apple's troubles with a new campaign for its Nseries phones emphasizing that they are "open to applications, open to widgets, open to anything . . even usable as a phone again . " :lol: . Funny that Palm (Treo) is currently hurting more than Apple(iPhone) According to this article Palm Posts $841,000 Loss After Treo Trails BlackBerry (Update4) By Ville Heiskanen Oct . 1 (Bloomberg) -- Palm Inc . had its first loss in more than three years as sales of its Treo e-mail phone lagged behind the BlackBerry and iPhone . The company's shares fell 4 . 4 percent after this quarter's forecast missed analysts' estimates . . bloomberg . com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=asGyxUSi2SIk&refer=home" target="_blank">www . bloomberg . com	winmacguy (3367)
596879	2007-10-02 01:43:00	Funny that Palm (Treo) is currently hurting more than Apple(iPhone) According to this article What does the Treo have to do with anything?	george12 (7)
596880	2007-10-02 01:50:00	What does the Treo have to do with anything? Just trying to divert attention from the utter mess that the iPhone and its users are in.	beeswax34 (63)
596881	2007-10-02 01:54:00	What does the Treo have to do with anything? It's "potential" competition to the iPhone. The two smart phones occupy the same market and the iPhone ain't struggling. I very much doubt that owners of hacked iPhones are in a "mess" since they were well aware of the situation prior to getting the hack.	winmacguy (3367)
596882	2007-10-02 02:07:00	It's "potential" competition to the iPhone. The two smart phones occupy the same market and the iPhone ain't struggling. I very much doubt that owners of hacked iPhones are in a "mess" since they were well aware of the situation prior to getting the hack. If the Treo is doing poorly, that makes no difference to what's going on with the iPhone. If you have a failing business, do you go and say "look at this one - it's just gone bankrupt! I guess we're doing fine then"? Personally I think Apple's sales tactic for the iPhone of locking the phone to a provider they have a deal with is very Microsoft-like, something which one would expect they'd want to avoid. Anti-competitive, monopolising etc. It's not the same at all, of course, because people don't have to use iPhones, but I don't think it's a good business stategy and it will hurt them in the end.	george12 (7)
596883	2007-10-02 02:14:00	Anti-competitive, monopolising etc. It's not the same at all, of course, because people don't have to use iPhones, but I don't think it's a good business stategy and it will hurt them in the end. I guess we will just have to wait and see. So far sales are looking very strong in the run up to Christmas Sales of Apple's slick touch-screen handset at AT&T retail stores, which saw an immediate spike following a $200 price cut earlier this month, appear to have stabilized at levels much higher than one analyst had anticipated. In a report released to clients earlier this month, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said iPhone sales increased as much as threefold at most Apple and AT&T stores in the first five days that followed Apple's 33 percent price cut on Sept. 5th.	winmacguy (3367)
596884	2007-10-02 02:44:00	my brother said those horrid words today "OMG LOL DAT IFONE LUKS GR8 I MITE GT A LOAN 2 BY WUN!" good god im only 18 and i nearly had a heart attack :lol: after a good smack around the back of the head - the idiot speak stopped so i spent the next 30 minutes explaining to him that his Nokia 3205 does everything he needs (hes still in school) and if he buys an iPhone im sure his parents would strangle him for it ( im sure most people baulk at the price of it straight off the bat) and id strangle him for it just because he has the idiocy and sheep-like attitude that would see him buying an iPhone im going to have to lie down for a bit . . . . . . . :p	MAC_H8ER (5897)
596885	2007-10-02 02:48:00	my brother said those horrid words today "OMG LOL DAT IFONE LUKS GR8 I MITE GT A LOAN 2 BY WUN!" good god im only 18 and i nearly had a heart attack :lol: after a good smack around the back of the head - the idiot speak stopped so i spent the next 30 minutes explaining to him that his Nokia 3205 does everything he needs (hes still in school) and if he buys an iPhone im sure his parents would strangle him for it ( im sure most people baulk at the price of it straight off the bat) and id strangle him for it just because he has the idiocy and sheep-like attitude that would see him buying an iPhone im going to have to lie down for a bit . . . . . . . :p Maybe you can Metla him . . . . . .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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