{"id":1949,"date":"2007-09-25T10:46:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T17:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/permanently-damaged-software\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T17:46:45","slug":"permanently-damaged-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/permanently-damaged-software\/","title":{"rendered":"permanently damaged software???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed,\u00e2\u20ac? <\/code><\/p>\n<p>Now, how stupid Apple thinks people are?? Permanently damaged software? Excuse me? Yes you can paint yourself into a corner and a device might be unable start when you mess<br \/>\nwith it&#8217;s boot software for instance. But you can not permanently damage software. That&#8217;s like suggesting the letter &#8216;e&#8217; got damaged and can no longer be used. That&#8217;s just plain stupid. Or marketing via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt\">FUD<\/a>. Only companies on the loosing slope resort to FUD. Nobody has ever recovered to prosperity via FUD. With AAPL trading at a stagering 150 US$ I wonder why Apple things they have to sling some bullshit like that. Probably since they always did so. Apple has always operated on &#8216;bended truths&#8217;. Anybody remember how the PowerPC is just so much faster than those Intel CPUs? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed,\u00e2\u20ac? Now, how stupid Apple thinks people are?? Permanently damaged software? Excuse me? 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