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Originally Posted by HarryT
The BBC are reporting that a new software update from Apple leaves "hacked" iPhones permanently inoperable.
The story reports that:
On Monday Apple issued a statement in which it said many of the unauthorised iPhone unlocking programs caused "irreparable damage" to the device's software.
The company said this would "likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed".
That warning has now proved correct as many owners are reporting their phones no longer work following installation of the update. |
Apple purposely created the new firmware to check for an unlocked phone and cause it not to work. This is all the fault of Apple. It would be one thing if after applying the new firmware, the phone was no longer unlocked (which Apple could have done), but instead they decided to cause the phones to simply not work.