Apple's Not 'Bricking' Hacked IPhones for Revenge

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	Apple's Not 'Bricking' Hacked IPhones for Revenge

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10-3-2007 11:13 PM

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Many people seem to think Apple is deliberately "bricking" hacked iPhones with a software update as payback for users having the temerity to hack the devices. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2007/10/cultofmac_1003"><P>Hacking the iPhone is "an assault on the integrity of (Jobs') artifact," writes pundit Nicholas Carr.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2007/10/cultofmac_1003"><P>The same is true of the iPhone, according to Jobs. "You don't want your phone to be like a PC," <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/technology/12apple.html">Jobs told <CITE>The New York Times</CITE></A> in January. "The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn't work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are like computers." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2007/10/cultofmac_1003"><P>"It wasn't intentional at all," she said. "If they wanted to brick hacked iPhones, they could have done a much better job of it."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2007/10/cultofmac_1003"><P>The new iPhone software appears to be a ground-up rewrite, unrecognizable under the hood to the older version, which Sadun said was "very unfinished" and, in some places, "a complete hack."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B647038A-4FB2-48AB-9D4F-853A2257CB88/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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