Apple–Please Adopt More Customer-Friendly iPhone Policies
Here is some feedback I have sent to Apple regarding the latest issues related to Apple killing “Google Voice” type applications in the App Store and Apple’s statements that jailbreaking your iPhone will cause the world to end. I would encourage you all to do the same.
I’ve seen a number of news stories that says that Apple thinks people shouldn’t hack the baseband software in their iPhones because it can cause damage to the mobile phone network. If there was a simple way to unlock the iPhone people paid for without hacking the baseband, people wouldn’t be hacking the baseband. Make it dead simple like a Nokia–enter a code into the phone, boom, the device is unlocked.
People would not be as interested in jailbreaking iPhones, either, if there was some way for people to install apps that Apple does not approve of. The best app on a Nokia is something called Gravity. It is digitally signed, but frequently not by Symbian (who is owned by Nokia). Other platforms have this concept as well.
Both of these issues–and resulting bad PR–is entirely self-inflicted. Please consider changing your policies in these areas to more customer-friendly ones. Permit people to unlock their legitimately paid for iPhones and install applications of their own choosing.
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Comment by tom
the whole google voice thing really confuses me. how is an extra service that sits between you and your callers more of a ‘duplication of a built in feature’ than skype that actually allows the bypassing of the iphone ‘calling’ feature all together?
i am a bit mixed about the ‘jailbreaking.’ on the one hand i wish i did not have to do it; on the other the hacker in me kind of like the challange and exclustivity of being a member of the ‘jailbreak club.’ as much as geeks and hackers love to dream of ‘open devices’ the reality as long as they are busy with hacks is that it does not matter since they will simply open up the closed devices.
it is a bit ironic though that apple coumputer was founded by a couple homebrew computer club members who were in the bussiness of building and selling ‘blue boxes’ to hack the phone company before they went ligit, and is now the company with the most closed and locked down platform.
Comment by Jason Harris
I have a jailbroken iPhone already – and immediately downloaded GV Mobile from Cydia when it was released. Great app – great extension/interface for Google Mobile.
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