First off, what do you expect Apple to do? They want a software sealed phone and will take measures to keep it that way. Whether or not they set out to brick the hacked phones we'll probably never know but they warned it could happen.
Secondly, they warned it could happen and these people were still dumb enough to try it? If they are smart enough to hack their phone they should be smart enough to know not to update it when one becomes available.
to be fair, the whole updating a phone via itunes is fairly new. I think some people were just blissfully ignorant when putting on the new software. It will all get squared away soon enough.
Agreed. Someone buys the phone, unlocks it, hacks it, knows all the goodies, probably reads this site too. Update is announced, confirmed that it will brick your hacked phone, the update is NOT forced to download, you are given the option. This is about as stupid as sueing for spilling coffee on yourself cause you didnt know it was hot.
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First off, what do you expect Apple to do? They want a software sealed phone and will take measures to keep it that way. Whether or not they set out to brick the hacked phones we'll probably never know but they warned it could happen.
Secondly, they warned it could happen and these people were still dumb enough to try it? If they are smart enough to hack their phone they should be smart enough to know not to update it when one becomes available.
to be fair, the whole updating a phone via itunes is fairly new. I think some people were just blissfully ignorant when putting on the new software. It will all get squared away soon enough.
Agreed.
Someone buys the phone, unlocks it, hacks it, knows all the goodies, probably reads this site too. Update is announced, confirmed that it will brick your hacked phone, the update is NOT forced to download, you are given the option. This is about as stupid as sueing for spilling coffee on yourself cause you didnt know it was hot.