The Musings of Brian Groce

Preface: If this were coming directly from me, it would be a very biased AND completely unauthoritative recommendation as I do not own an iPhone and have no plans to purchase one.

That said, I was quite surprised to see the “A-list” tech blog Gizmodo ripping the iPhone three months after its release. And numerous other popular sites jumping on board…see Yahoo!, The Guardian & Wired to name a few.

While I do find the recommendation against buying an iPhone a little surprising since all of the Mac users that I know are true fiends for all things Mac, I think that Apple, and even AT&T for that matter, didn’t take one major fact into consideration…you’re not only selling this device to “Mac Heads”. A good majority of the people that will drop that kind of money for a phone are techies who want a device to do exactly what they want it to do and will “hack” it into submission if necessary.

Which brings us to the issue at hand. Apparently Apple issued a firmware “upgrade” which disallows hacking the iPhone and has in turn rendered the iPhone useless for those who have hacked it. Unless of course they revert back to the previous version, which then won’t allow any “official” iPhone upgrades.

While I understand the monetary side of why they did it, I can’t see how this will be good for business, especially after the uproar from the recent $200 price drop. But hey, I guess that it isn’t my business, right?

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