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Your analogy sucks. When you buy a truck there are no terms and conditions that say you can't add a hitch.Want a good car analogy? Ask one of the many people who have flashed the ECU (engine control unit?) with an aftermarket program, only to take it to the dealer for service and have it re-flashed with factory firmware. Most aftermarket chip tuners even have a plan in place to re-flash your chip if this happens.Additionally, flashing your ECU can void your warranty if the failure can be linked to the alteration. Let's say the engine experiences detonation due to excessive spark advance and cracks a ring or a piston. You're liable.This is not unlike the iPhone issue. People who altered their firmware made a change to the phone that Apple stated they would not support. Why would they support it? It's not their software you've installed, and you agreed not the f**k with the phone when you bought it.The only case you can make is that you WANT to be able to alter your phone's software. Ok. You've expressed your wishes. You are not entitled to anything. Go buy an OpenMoko based phone and vote with your wallet.

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Funny, last I checked, apple didn't have to support any third party apps, let alone an SDK for them. If a user installs a 3rd party app, that's their responsibility. And fyi, those "crappy hacked programs" you speak of often turn out better than the proprietary crap that vendors serve you. The initial releases tend to be rough but they flesh out brilliantly over the course of a few months thanks to user feedback.

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I don't think the majority of iPhone hackers are wining about the fact that apple bricked there phone. The ones that unlocked the phones may be but the real iPhone hackers, the ones developing and using all the great apps like SummerBoard are not because our phones weren't bricked. At the core I think its about Apple trying to prevent them from using there phone in ways that for some reason Apple feels is inappropriate.Someone said that it's a phone and that it wasn't designed to be the next Newton, that it wasn't meant to have all your apps. But if you own the device you should be able to put the apps on it that I want. Imagine what would have happen if the computer companies did not allow us to install other operating systems on their computers! Only windows OR only Linux, that would be insane (well I could almost live with only Linux ). And thats NOT what they are talking about. Many of them just want to be able to install custom apps!To all you non-iPhone hackers, how can you comment on something if you haven't tried it. Summerboard apps on the iPhone are amazing and add to the productivity of the iPhone immensely. I ask all of you to check out someone's modded iPhone and tell me honestly that its not BETTER!Apple is a publicly traded company and has a fiduciary responsibility to its share holders to make money. No one is challenging that. If Apple were to open the iPhone to developers I postulate that they would sell more phones. However, if Apple does not wake up and look at the forest through the trees, other companies will. The iPhone is an amazing product with amazing capabilities but if Apple chooses to keep the platform closed, over time someone else will develop a product that will compete head on with the iPhone AND have an open development platform and when that happens they win - not Apple.I don't really have a problem with Apple trying to prevent people from using other sim cards in the phone. But when they do it in such a was as to brick the phone and then tell you too bad - thats wrong and maybe even illegal. This is where Apple is wrong

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I didn't know to laugh or cry about the tone of the video or the fact that I don't have an iphone. Ether way good video and good phone.

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Apple weren't close to sink? I wouldn't call success a stock with a value under 5 bucks.MS helped Apple to avoid the monopolistic position that they would gain if Apple filled bankruptcy, there's no other 'real' reason. And talking all that BS you just make yourself look like a fanboy.

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