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- Bobbysin, on 09/26/2008, -7/+58***** china
- infinitexx, on 09/26/2008, -0/+42What exactly is the point of an iphone without 3g and/or wi-fi?
- philodygmn, on 09/25/2008, -8/+37They already did for AT&T, why should anyone be surprised if they cave to China, too?
- darkNiGHTS, on 09/26/2008, -3/+23APPPLLLEEE!! SHINNNYYY!!
I think those features are secondary to most people who buy Apple products. - secrity, on 09/26/2008, -0/+18This is no worse than the general handset crippling that is done at the request of US carriers. Aren't there some Nokia handsets that have the Wi-Fi disabled at the request of an American carrier?
- hybryd131, on 09/25/2008, -1/+14That's what jailbreaking is for. Takes just a few minutes and you can get almost any feature that the hardware can handle. I'm curious whether or not it is a hardware or software cripple though.
- inactive, on 09/26/2008, -3/+12It's infuriating that all of these corporations are willing to cooperate with the government to do harm to the rights of the Chinese people. In this case it's a relatively minor harm, but Microsoft and Yahoo (among others,) have gone a long way to help free speech from breaking out in China.
- Commodus, on 09/26/2008, -0/+9Because it's the story people endorse, not the cause! Think about it for a moment.
- digitalpencil, on 09/26/2008, -0/+828 million prospective users... no wonder Apple want to crack this nut.
- hoodratthangs, on 09/26/2008, -2/+10Dear China:
You know you can't fake everything.
Steve - migitalwarfare, on 09/26/2008, -1/+9Sure, the Chinese government will totally allow access to a hacking website. They're all about open access to information
- getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -0/+8Expensive subpar phone?
- theratster, on 09/26/2008, -0/+8You digg the STORY.
- chevriley, on 09/26/2008, -1/+9read the article. its not about "cripling" the people of china, just a corporation making an ***** move for the big bucks.
- Trilogy, on 09/26/2008, -8/+15I didn't know they could intentionally cripple it more than it already is.
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..................................., - digitalpencil, on 09/26/2008, -0/+5pretty sweet remote control.. nah i can't think of anything either.
- MacBookForMe, on 09/26/2008, -3/+8Never trust the communist party:)
- bsl4doc, on 09/26/2008, -0/+4Of course they will! Just like no one in China has ever found a way to connect to banned websites through non-Chinese proxies, right?
- SethBoy, on 09/26/2008, -0/+4Wouldn't even work as a remote without the WiFi.
- HappyScrappy, on 09/26/2008, -0/+4They already cripped the iPhone for AT&T.
SIM locked.
No tethering.
They removed the Wi-Fi base station software from the store for AT&T.
Wake up folks. This is already being done to you by Apple. - seraph582, on 09/26/2008, -0/+3Jailbreak, this is HappyScrappy. HappyScrappy? Jailbreak. I don't believe you two have met before!
- JackDoyle, on 09/26/2008, -0/+3If the iPhone were on Verizon it'd be a done deal already.
- helenkupo, on 09/26/2008, -1/+4If it still works and it cost half the price...does it matter?
- connieLingus, on 09/26/2008, -1/+4what china and its market of 1.3 billion citizens wants, china gets...that's capitalism, folks. i don't agree with the idea of restricting use like this, but sometimes people forget that china is not a democracy, its a socialist state run by party thugs.
- Sozin, on 09/26/2008, -0/+3Wait what? So you're telling me that the eyeFone I bought on my last trip to Beijing is a cheap knockoff?
- inactive, on 09/26/2008, -0/+3I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
- seraph582, on 09/26/2008, -0/+3Jailbreak, this is HappyScrappy. HappyScrappy? Jailbreak. I don't believe you two have met before!
$100 says Apple execs themselves jailbroke them before AppStore came out, and still do if they have any need for tethering. - liudamao, on 09/26/2008, -1/+4As a people living in China PRC, as far as I know ,it's the China Mobile itself NOT the government want Apple to make such a ridiculous cripple. So just relax.
B.T.W. 19 out of 20 friends around me will use the smart handsets which cost less than $200 ,for myself I use a cell phone only costs about $50. - omarciddo, on 09/26/2008, -1/+4They're companies, not human rights groups. They do what they have to do to make money; it's all about the bottom line in the end. Who knows, if it ends up being a hardware cripple, the iPhones might not be as expensive to make, increasing profit margins.
- HappyScrappy, on 09/26/2008, -0/+3They're SIM locked in my country the US. Guess on whose behalf that was done? AT&T.
It can't do tethering either (unlike a Blackberry). Guess on whose behalf that was left out?
Remember the Wi-Fi base station software that was removed from the Apple store? Guess whose rules that violates?
It's at least as bad that people think neutering a phone for a carrier only happens in China. - WoollyMittens, on 09/26/2008, -0/+3More despotist than socialist, really.
- bjs3171, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2if they need to cave, just leave out the 3G. Removing the wi-fi just makes it pointless.
- bkemper, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2Verizon cripples a lot of the bluetooth and USB capabilities. Which was why I was ready to move to AT&T for the iPhone. The iPhone DOESN'T do that (at least here).
- BigVi, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2This is what I love about censorship... No one ever will figure out how to reactive them.
- mzieg, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2Because anything that reminds the free people of the world just how oppressive China's government can be, is worth shouting from a mountaintop. Also, because stories like this (however they get proxied / mirrored / emailed / etc) help show the Chinese just how much their government is trampling on their people's access to information and communication.
A disappointing number of technologically literate, college-educated young metropolitan Chinese actually SUPPORT the Communist Party, because they know that, were genuine democratic elections to be held, the city-dwellers would be out-voted by the vast countryside (e.g., red-state America). They don't WANT democracy, because they'd lose power (to continue the analogy, I guess that would be America's blue coastlines). Therefore, stories like this help remind Chinese powerful young up-and-comers that oppression hurts them, too. - ryanonfire, on 09/26/2008, -3/+5people buy the brand not the product.
- helenkupo, on 09/26/2008, -1/+3It's funny coming from a country that already sells tons of bootleg iphones and other such electronics.
http://www.lightinthebox.com/
Super cell phone! - mzieg, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2YEAH! They may not be willing to fight and die for their freedom...but BY GOD they'll lay it all on the line for their IPHONES!
VIVA LA REVOLUTION! - AlienMushroom, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2Well, at least they don't need to worry about economy collapse.
- troye, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2You know it!
- TurboSquid, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2They already do this in Canada. A ( non iPod ) example would be early Telus camera phones, you could take pictures till the thing ran out of memory but would have to pay to download them off of the Telus website because they had disabled the USB port... ( Unless you knew a little about BREW :p )
- bsl4doc, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2@helenkupo
It matters because most of them *don't* work. You should try buying bootleg electronics/accessories sometime. - digitalpencil, on 09/26/2008, -0/+2nah it's estimates by CM that 20% of handsets sold in 07 cost upwards of $4000 RMB ($533) which works out at roughly 28 million prospective customers.
- gelatina1996, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1@bsl4doc: They must probably block sites that show non-chinese proxies.
- Cybermaul, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1I would never swap fluids with the communist party.
Oh, wait, you said sap...the principle of the matter remains. - monkeyrun, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1I think in mainland China they don't even use 3G, so that leaves disabling WiFi..
Taking away WiFi = Crippling the people of China? wow... - Myztry, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1If there are patents, copyrights or other profitably favorable things in question, they insist on global laws based on there own countries well lobbied local law.
But if there are humans rights abuse, illegal mining methods, etc (Illegal in their incorporated country) then they're all for other countries having different laws...
Hypocrites! - CosmoLoss, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1wat
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