Apple claims jailbroken iPhones could harm cell towers

Why don't you just bide your time until they release the "Windows 7 World Domination Edition"? :haha:

The truth of the matter is that by unlocking your iPhone you are making possible for space aliens to dig into your brain and control your thoughts and turn you into a space alien zombie. While the odds of the happening are not particularly high, it remains a possibility. Want proof? OK, just wait for those who have been turned into Apple zombies thru the use of their locked iPhones to begin to defend Apple's position.

Windows Mobile phones have had no restrictions way before the IPhone came out. Not once did I personally ever hear Microsoft say they would cause havoc to the cell networks if you customized it on the system level. Which is something people have been doing for years. Or how about the fact that Android is open source, isn’t anybody worried about that LOL.

I don't reallly give a **** about the aliens. As long as I could use a Jailbroken Iphone to order a pizza, and they didn't either eat my pizza, or mug the delivery man, me and the aliens will get alone just fine.

What happens when an Icrack actually does take out a cell tower? Do you see a puff of smoke? Would it topple over? Would there be a massive explosion? Would it then be teleported back to the mother ship?

I was never actually trying to defend Apple's position on this matter. I simply did my homework and laid out the facts whether you like it or not. I actually know someone who was working on making one of the very first 3G phone chips and knows a thing or two about how this stuff actually works.

The point isn't that Microsoft allows customization, it's that Mac doesn't. You literally have to hack into the operating system. You're exploiting a new hole in their code every time they patch it too, and if you can get in, so can any jackoff who also knows a thing or two about writing viruses. And causing driver instability because you don't like having the default OS is going to cause even bigger problems.

I agree with you all, Apple is a terrible company. They're following the footsteps of IBM from the 1980s when they had a computer monopoly, and I strongly dislike what they're doing as much as the next guy. But that isn't going to stop me from looking at the claim and seeing what the evidence behind it is. And if someone who was working on a very similar product says it's entirely possible, then I trust him more than I trust an internet-poster who acts like they know better.

If you think it's hogwash, then figure out why and prove it to me.

This is an oversimplification, but everybody who owns an Apple anything, is convinced that Apple viruses, and thus exploits can't and therefore don't exist.

The introduction of fear into a population is a time honored tradition in the field of propaganda.

Doesn't M$ know anything about this subject? Yet as you say, they allow customization. Can happen and will happen are two entirely different things. At least some part of the message from Apple here is, that they believe their product is so superior it can't be improved upon, and you're only allowed to have what Steve Jobs says you are, Now pass them your checkbook, please.

Interesting comments. I'm a PC and just recently got an iPhone. (After playing with a friend's I couldn't resist.) Anyway, I've only had to reboot this thing a couple of times in the month that I've had it. My HTC Fuze and my HTC Advantage before that had to be rebooted every other day (just like my Windows Vista machine). If Apple having control of my phone means I can continue this stability, I'm all for it. Having said that, however, those that want to be Windows like should be able go ahead and have at it, doing whatever to their phones.....

@cranky

Again, I absolutely agree. I think people were just taking too much of what I said at face-value. Can and will are definitely different things, and you're right, Apple's message is pretty clear in terms of their mindset of superiority. But people keep knocking the claim they've made as being impossible, and I'm trying to get across that it IS possible and that they're not lying.

Wouldn’t this mean that Apple is providing support to terrorist?

I think we should ban all I-phones because they can take down our wireless phone infrastructure.

Several years Ago, The Apple G-3, (or maybe G-4), desktop was classified as a weapon by the US government. This because it's computing power, it was felt, could be adapted to weapons guidance application. It's export was banned. I guess the US thought the machine could be "jail broken"!

Apple being the opportunistic and avaricious organization that it is, used this as a platform for an extensive ad campaign, He' ya folks, git your weapons grade personal computers here! You'd almost think they though it was funny then.

So why aren't they laughing now?

Was it not apple (woz) who invented the famous blue box phone hacking hardware back in the 70s ?

Oh how times have changed.