Thursday, September 27, 2007

Apple : Sony :: iPhone : PSP

So this pissed me off.

Before the iPhone came out Apple played up the ability to write 3rd party applications for the iPhone. Remember that Press Release in which they said, "Third-party applications created using Web 2.0 standards can extend iPhone’s capabilities without compromising its reliability or security."

Yeah.

Apparently 3rd Party Apps void the iPhone Warranty (2nd Source).

Because when you make a product and laud it's ability to do X it's often best to later state that doing X voids the warranty. And when, exactly, did Apple become Sony? Who thought that was a good idea?

3 comments:

Mike Lewis said...

nope
you are wrong
by Web 2.0 standards can they meant programs that run within the phones browser.

the 3rd party apps they are talking about in the press release are programs that run natively in the OS...like install.app .

so you are confleting two things. Apple is pro people making programs that run in the browers and anti people making things run natively.

and really, they are not anti-people making 3 party apps...its people making 3rd party apps that unlock the phones sim. If you read Lam's post at Gizmodo, what he is talking about it GUI unlock and ANYsim. which reprogram the phone's modems so that they can be used on other programs. This is a hardware hack.

finally, anytime someone hacks anything, it voids the warranty. Apple has been turing away people with hacked phones for weeks. If PSP hacking has shown us anything, is that it takes about a day for the moders to get around the new upgrades. it took less than that for people to get around ring tone blocks.

it is total bullshit that apple just wont release a SDK. or at least say that there is one coming. THere has been a lot of fear mongering coming from the tech press about this thing. But you have to wonder, how much of this is coming from ATT. Like the music companies that wont let apple cell DRM free music on iTMS, how much pressure is ATT putting on apple to keep the phone locked down. It is in ATT's best intrest to keep people from unlocking there phone. Apple makes money either way (not as much if you believe the rumors that apple gets a cut of the voice/date plan) but apple is still making 200$ per handset, whether it is on ATT, T-Moble, Rogers, Orange, or any of the 100s of GMS carriers in Asia and Africa.

_J_ said...

Why is it that installing 3rd party applications on one's laptop does not void the warranty but installing 3rd party applications on one's mobile device voids the warranty?

_J_ said...

And isn't "Program that runs in browser" something of an odd notion? I wouldn't think of java based chat as a "program". It technically is, but it seems functionally different from something like an install.app program that one can use when not online.

But then we could argue whether or not WoW is a "program" as it really is only useful with an internet connection. And so on.