Some Apple Geniuses Restoring Bricked iPhones

You know damn well that when you unlocked your iPhone, it’d only be good until the next software update. Don’t kid me. You knew it.

Now your iPhone is an expensive paperweight and Apple says you voided your warranty. Try to take it to an Apple Store or send it back to Apple and you’ll get denied. Lucky for you, some Apple employees working the Genius Bar have compassion and will restore your iPhone back to its original, locked state. Hey, be grateful and take what you can get.

No word yet if the restored iPhones were even originally bricked. Some people are even claiming that Apple employees are straight up swapping units with brand new ones for customers. If your iPhone got bricked from the updated, I highly suggest running to your local Apple Store(s) and getting it fixed before store managers come down on employees with great fury.

Oh I bet Apple isn’t happy about this!! I hope the people at the Genius bars aren’t going to get fired over this.

How to relock your iPhone before the firmware update

Apple has your unlocked iPhone in their crosshairs. What do you do? Here’s my first go at a re-locking guide. I’ll update and confirm as time and feedback permit. This method in no way guarantees that your iPhone will survive the update after being unlocked.

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/24/how-to-relock-your-iphone-before-the-firmware-update/

They are preparing. Steve Resistance is FUTILE!!

Apple says iPhone unlocking may cause permanent damage

Merely three days after hearing of one user’s run-in with Apple over his unlocked iPhone, the company has released an official statement warning users that “unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs” could cause “irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software.” Furthermore, the firm stated that these apps could result in the handset becoming “permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed” — you know, like the one coming “later this week” that includes the iTunes WiFi Music Store. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the release also notes that “unauthorized modifications to the iPhone’s software” violates the iPhone software license agreement and “voids the warranty.” Ouch.

What is Apple thinking making a statement like that? I wonder if he knows how much trouble he’s getting into. I do not think unlocking the Iphone is a bad, it is my right as a user. He can’t be serious Can HE?