Apple updates iPhone. Legal, unhacked phones become bricks?
According to Saul Hansell at the NY Times, Apple intends to break phones that have been unlocked.
But Francine Hardaway and Patrick Scoble both updated this afternoon, and bad things happened. Hardaway's phone was "fried," she needed a new phone, and Scoble lost all his data.
Looks like Josh Bancroft's iPhone was hosed too. I would hold off on the update until we find out what's going wrong.
Sugar Attack: "It wasn't until I saw a friend tweet about the new iPhone firmware upgrade that I realized I could now access the iTunes WiFi store."
Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:01:38 PM
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