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I'm thinking about making it my Christmas gift from the wife.
Anyone have one? What accessories did you get?
Also, do you like it?
Anyone have one? What accessories did you get?
Also, do you like it?
A coworker of mine has one. There definetly cool. The only thing about them that I really dont like is the people that have one and feel its their duty to inform the entire world that they have an iPhone
A coworker of mine has one. There definetly cool. The only thing about them that I really dont like is the people that have one and feel its their duty to inform the entire world that they have an iPhone
I got an iPhone and unlocked it to work with T-Mobile.
ouch. have fun with your brick with the next update.
What happens to them when they update?
Can it be made to work on Nextel networks? I'm all about phone hacking, and am tired of my i870.
I don't update my phone. There's no need to. The additional features on firmware update 1.1.1 is unecessary for me (iTunes over WiFi networks).ouch. have fun with your brick with the next update.
Apple thinks they have some right to your phone after you purchased it to deactivate your property so it won't work at all just because you're not using *THE CHOSEN SERVICE PROVIDER*<echo voice>.
People however keep hacking the phones to break the updates and unbrick the phones
honestly, i really think Apple itself doesn't care about people unlocking their phones. It's AT&T who cares because they paid Apple for 3+ years of exclusive rights to the iPhone in America in which I'm sure they had pushed Apple to render altered phones useless.
Apple already makes $399 on the phone and make next to zilch on service.
You do realize that Apple makes an average of $18 a month on each Iphone that is on At&t's network. And you also do realize how Apples entire mentality is. They are the same company who absolutely will not make a version of their operating system that will work with hardware that is not certified by them. This is also why they have overall lost in the computer market. They gained a bit of market share recently but I understand it's still under %7.
I believe they could turn it around by simply writing good software code and allowing you to install their OS on anything you want with out hacking the software up.
That's a little off topic though.
Building small technologically advanced products seems to suit Apple well, they just need to start respecting their customers a little more.
It's not that I'm not interested in Apple, I would like actual competition in operating systems. What products that apple makes were largely responsible for their huge stock prices, imacs? I think not, I think you know that's not the case either. Apple has gained a very small portion in the home computing market recently, but that is insignificant compared to Windows machines. Apple makes almost all of it's money from devices like Ipods, I don't think the Iphone has really kicked in yet and most stock gaines from that are probably due to speculation that they will take off.You do realize that Apple stock is at an all-time high and this is generally considered the best the company has ever been doing, right? I hardly call that "lost in the computer market". You're not interested, that's fine, it's apparent you aren't in their target market.
So Apple writes the best code around? I would argue that apple uses their own hardware because they are incapable of making stable software that runs on various different hardware configurations. Linux and Microsoft can, Apple can not. Apple can not even seem use standard networking protocols that don't go haywire with out special configuration when mixed with PC's running windows or linux. Mac software such as Itunes and Quicktime in recent years has become troublesome in business environments, and they make it a pain in the ass to uninstall portions of their crappy software. Lets also not forget about how certain viruses infect PC's through apple software and apple blames the other software companies for it's poor business practices. That can also be shown as evendence of not respecting their customers and the general public seeing as much of that were people who purchased Ipods. I support both Apples and Pc's and I see what they do in relation to each other and how they compare in reliability. Far more similarly than you might realize. They even get viruses now, new for us in the last year or so. Although I haven't seen it here yet I have been reading reports that they even BSOD now, so maybe they are getting better at writing codetiptone said:They've written some of the best "software code" around, and have one of the most rock-solid consumer Operating Systems on the planet. They have been able to do this because they know exactly what hardware (and therefore what drivers) their OS will be running on/with.
I do agree that there is a large number of hardcore Apple people that even if their computer started on fire would not ever say anything bad about apple, and yes that has happened before. But maybe it was really inovative to make a computer with out a cpu fan?I think you'll find that most people who are actually a customer feel that Apple respects them just fine. I own quite a few of them and don't feel disrespected in the slightest.
Liger it's pretty much my favorite operating system