Comments on: Apple’s iPhone 1.1.1 Update Not Compelling Enough to Force Upgrade…How Will Apple Woe Hacked Users?

By: DBL

DBL — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:14:43 +0000

I’m no longer interested in either the iPhone or the iPod touch now that I know that all 3rd party apps will be blown away off the screen with every major Apple update. If OS X worked like that, I wouldn’t be interested in the Mac, either.

Plain and simple. And I don’t give a crap what the warranty agreement says. Why should I agree to that agreement? No thank you, goodbye. Apple, get back to me when you’ve decided to take your own technology seriously instead of trying to slap permanent training wheels on it and hope we will all cycle along.

The day I consider shelling out for a device with the power of an iPod touch or an iPhone, is the day that those who use that power to develop independently, do not have their creations directly interfered with and blocked by the maker of the device itself. This to me is like designing a car and then trying to block the purchaser of that car from driving onto certain streets.

Apple: you know where you can shove that philosophy. Maintaining a service contract lock is one thing. Playing ‘it’s all mine mine mine’ with potential 3rd-party developers is quite another.

And Steve Jobs: you ain’t so smart as people have been saying. That much is *very* clear.

By: pepe

pepe — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:18:20 +0000

Well put! Homebrew, iToner and SIM freedom trumps the features of this update easily.

By: James Katt

James Katt — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:05:47 +0000

Hackers who STUPIDLY upgraded using Apple’s latest update after hacking their iPhone with their own update of the firmware DESERVE the brick they now have.

If you do your own upgrade of the iPhone firmware using a hacker software maker’s firmware update, you should NEVER EVER AGAIN use Apple’s software and firmware upgrades. You should realize you have taken complete responsibility of any further updates to YOUR iPhone by hacking it with your own updates.

If you are a hacker and are unhappy, SUE the hacker software makers for being so negligent as to make a firmware upgrade which is incompatible with future Apple updates - if that is what the hacker software maker guaranteed.

Of course, they don’t guarantee such a thing - foolish ones with the iPhone bricks. After all, the hacker software makers realize what they are fully doing - guaranteeing that the iPhone will never be compatible with future Apple updates. Duh!

So stop your whining. Buy another unhacked iPhone and enjoy your iPhone for what it is - a fantastic phone - not an open system you can hack at any time.

By: Eliakim

Eliakim — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:21:09 +0000

Oh come on; get real! You have to have special songs or music to identify your callers. Well, the iPhone comes prepackaged with several different ones. And the iTunes Store has a number of other ones. It’s the best deal around, in all the cellular world for companies that sell ringtones. You’ve got all the options you need already. Apple has provided them.

As for these whiney and loudly-crying crybaby hackers, well, they need to “get real and get a life” for a change. The overwhelming and vast majority of iPhone users have no problems with the iPhone as it’s the best phone they’ve ever had, bar none, and they have no worries about bricking their phones, because they don’t go “mucking around” in them, and they have their full warranties intact.

The only place where these hackers get to whine up their alligator tears is on these geek-sites, as the mainline media doesn’t even want to bother with listening to a bunch of whiney crybabies and call that “news” in today’s papers or on television…

By: Hammer of Truth

Hammer of Truth — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:13:34 +0000

Yep it’s true, all of those things you want won’t come until leopard ships. I agree that 1.1.1 really doesn’t do that much to trade it for loosing the ability to put your own ringtones on your phone. I do think it was an attempt to break phones that were trying to use other gsm carriers rolled up with the itunes store. Like you said, I can wait till I get home to buy my music, I’m not that impatient and gotta have it now, kinda like people who need the latest iPhone firmware updates. Don’t fix it unless it’s broken. With Apple, any update has the potential to break something, just look at 10.4.X or the new iPhoto.

By: HG

HG — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:50:30 +0000

This is much ado about nothing by the elite of the elite.

One million plus iPhones users are not hacking their phones.

Quit swiftboating Apple. You should have read your contract before buying the thing.