Dear 1.1.1 Early Adopters: We Feel For You
Dear iPhone 1.1.1 Updaters,
We know the feeling - we want the latest software too. Apple says, "update your iPhone, trust us, it is better for you, we've given you a new way to buy DRM'ed music from us, louder speakerphone AND a new way to write a period! Not enough?? How about landscaped email attachments, new passcode lock time intervals and adjustable alert volume! Are you kidding me, how could you not want that? You know you want all of this stuff - how can you possibly resist?" Dowit!
And despite our pleas to the contrary, you did it. You are now part of the 1.1.1 club. It is a one-way street. All of your ringtones are gone. Your cool apps aren't there any more. No more native instant messaging. No more GPS. No more voice notes or emails. YOUR 1000's OF NES GAMES?!?! And those of you on other carriers? Welcome to a $1200 AT&T plan. There is no going back (as of now and it isn't looking too good for the future). If you've bricked your phone - take it to an Applestore, they'll flash the firmware and give you a 1.1.1 iPhone back. Maybe you can sell it? Or wait to November and activate it on O2.co.uk or Tmobile.de? Or December on Orange.fr? Who knows? I mean now you can turn off EDGE roaming so your bills will be in the hundred$ and not thousand$ for roaming without data, which is nice, right?
Then, on the other side of the ravine, there are the iPhoners who didn't upgrade and are still using the 1.0.2hax. We are on our own right now. Our software may never work with the official Apple version again. Should we run to the stores and buy up all of the 1.0.2 iPhones left on the shelves (we're tempted!)? These might be worth something when only 1.1.1 exist. Perhaps in a month, there will be a premium on these little guys because the ones on the shelves will be shipping locked with 1.1.1.
Will the 1.0.2 development continue? Yep - this is a strong hacking community and the fruits of their labor far outweigh anything Apple will have this year and probably well into next when new iPhone hardware is released. Will Apple catch up? Perhaps, but probably not. For instance, remember Apple gets a cut of your $M$ cheddar so there isn't really a motivation to get a mobile iChat out the door. GPS? There has to be a reason to buy a new iPhone in February right? Voice notes? Maybe. What about all of the L33T toys? Apple knows what is best for you, son, and they are not feeling that crazy haxor candy.
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W00T!!! I love 1.0.2HAX!! It is manual periods for me!
You're no blind Apple fanboys. That's why you're the greatest Apple related site around. Keep up the good work.
Thanks!
(a) for reading and
(b) being smart enough to know the difference
I'm sure 1.1.1 is being hacked at this very moment. There will be periods and speaker volume for all soon.
Perhaps, but this 1.1.1 firmware is apparently very similar to the iPod Touch firmware, which has yet to be hacked.
If Apple wants control of this ecosystem, more power to them. All of this hacking nonsense represents the tail wagging the dog. It goes something like this:
1. Hacker creates unlock method or writes 3rd party app.
2. Rebel users dump this stuff on their phones
3. Their phones behave poorly to poorly written software
4. Users take phones to Apple store or send in for repair
5. Apple is forced to deploy valuable resources chasing ghosts in the machine.
6. Phones get reset to factory defaults
7. Rebel user tries again.
8. Cycle repeats itself.
I had a palm with one well-respected 3rd party app. on it. The Treo was the worst phone I'd ever owned. I complained to Palm. They told me to remove all 3rd party apps and reset.
Keep the iPhone locked down Apple!!
re: step 3. All of the hacked phones I've seen behave great. Sometimes the beta apps will crash but the iPhoneOS doesn't skip a beat. A testament to both the Hackers and Apple(vs. Palm)
After that, you are just sour grapes. I would recommend trying out a hacked phone before judging them to be fair. To each his/her own.
I like how you end with "To each his/her own." But the whole time there is a rant (including stuffed animals riding sheep, right?) about iPhone users who've updated to 1.1.1.
I bought my iPhone for what it was, knowing what it was. I added ringtones that I made in Quicktime pro when all I had to do was change an a to an r and back to an a. Yes, those are gone now—big deal—because like I wrote earlier I originally bought the phone for what it was, knowing it's limitations and accepting them.
Don't harp on users for buying an iPhone for what it is and then updating it to get the latest features that Apple offers. Then when someone offers their own opinion you throw out a "to each his/her own."
Either state your opinion as it is and let those who want to own a device and use it as they like do so whithout looking like blind sheep to your followers, or don't throw out the "I would recommend trying before judging" crap.
Calling 1.1.1 adopters sheep is judging isn't it?
Right, so Symbian as its open platform is pure sh*t? Tell that to the millions that use it and then take away the their applications and lock it. You think that they would be happy about it? Don't think so. The fact is that nobody is forcing you to install 3rd party applications on any handheld / mobile phone. You need to be smart about it and think what you want to install and what you actually need. My experience is that 3rd party applications are not threat to consumers but control freak policy that Apple is practising with iPhone surely has turned out to radically limit consumers options even if it doesn't harm Apple's business model.
Ps. 9to5Mac is by far the best Mac news site around. Finally a publication that has real journalistic value and not some childish fanboy nonsense all over the place.
This whole scene reminds me of a great Hollywood movie! Me thinks Apple is responding to a far greater audience, and that because of this they are forced to listen to more folks when making protocol. I agree with the other posters that there's no Smith & Wesson in the hacks and that all warnings are clearly listed, so hack or hack not. This cat and mouse game is the natural order of things. For my part, sitting on the sidelines watching it unfold is better than any PBS documentary. Kudos to all the players, this includes Apple, and the Hax community. These are interesting times guys, lets be careful, adventurous, and lets all get along. 9to5 you blokes are rocking the KNOWN UNIVERSE!
Honestly, I'm happy to use the official upgrade. My customized Treos and Blackberries that I had before were a nightmare of restarts and instability. I'm happy to have a snappier phone that does (almost) everything I need it to do.
Bro, we're with you peeps on the other side as well. It is understandable.
But the 1.0.2hax is just as stable and snappy so don't go getting the opinion that your build is better in that way.
Honestly, is this site run by 14 year olds?
If you do the right thing, your phone doesn't get bricked. If you hack your phone and break the terms of the contract, you deserve what you get.
You got beat up a lot as a youngster for tattle-tailing on the bad kids, didn't you?
nanananana
I know you are afraid of the unknown and want to stay in your little pre-made by Apple box. I'm not faulting you for it.
Just don't judge us for experiencing the highs and lows of "thinking different."
Sheep!
"Just don't judge us . . ." Then you call him sheep. What a jackass.
Actually, if you upgrade you get what you deserve. IF you don't you also get what you deserve. A better phone.
@admin: love the way you make these posts .. keep it up.
as for this 1.1.1 fiasco .. well it was coming and I feel this new firmware will be a tough little cookie to break just like ipod touch .. probably now they both use the same security.
as for the people who have bought iPod .. well you gotta pay up buddies .. go and fill AT&T's pockets .. 1.. 2 .. 3 .. GO!
I stick to what I said 2 months ago .. iPhone is a dud! a money making machine that claims to do everything but does it only half as good as phones that are on the market already for 1/4 the price.
Meh, some people really just don't understand...
Regarding the ability to keep iPhone unlocked; if unlocking is done with iPhoneSimFree unlock the phone stays unlocked. iPhoneSimFree is also releasing un-brick / unlock function to those that got trigger happy and updated to 1.1.1 firmware. However, at this point jailbrake / activation / 3rd party applications are not working so you are stuck with AT&T at the moment although iPhoneSimFree guys state on their site that they are working on the issue. So it is very very likely that there will be solution in near future that allows the use of 3rd party applications with 1.1.1 and keep the iPhone unlocked.
Just to clarify - as some of what you said isn't correct.
If you used iPhoneSIMFree, you have an unactivated iPhone - like if you bought it new. To get at any of your stuff, or to even use it, you will need to activate.
You can't activate using any of the old tools - you need to go with AT&T.
Best case senario, at this point is doing the Go Plan which is like $50 to start and puts you on AT&T just like the rest of the 1.1.1ers
so with the Lie trick you are where everyone else is.
Apple is practicing monopoly here, they were the ones complaining about Microsoft, they supposed to be the cool guys of the block, look around Apple just want you to pay the .99c for the custom ringtones, get the percentage of your calls that AT&T is giving to them, and create a monopoly worst than the one Microsoft was doing when they released the Windows 95, where is the freedom for the customer to decide what they want to use with their products for which they pay what they supposed to pay, I rather prefer to pay more for a product that I can do whatever i want to do with, that having a price cut to buy a total blocked unit, with Apple deciding what I can use or not in my own phone and also trying to be the one getting all my money not giving me a chance to decide by myself, they dont want us to even be able to program an Unix based minicomputer just because of the money involved......... what a shame for Apple... we should all do a strike against this, asking for our rights and freedom back!!, we should go to the nearest Apple store and show them we want to be able to use the products we bought the way we want!!!, Steve Jobs should be ashamed of himself!! they are stealing technology from public domain as UNIX and then taking advantage of that to make money with derivate technology, like osX and now the iphone OSX limiting the programmers community to be seem as criminals!!!, lets stand up for our rights!!! Apple is a shame!!!! Steve Jobs is sick for money!!!!!
I can't figure out if you're serious or not, so I'm going to assume, to your credit, that you are joking.
If you weren't though, first read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
And now that we've taken care of your misunderstanding of monopoly...
It sounds as if you bought an iPhone. Why? If you know all of this about Apple being so controlling and all, why on earth buy an iPhone? You knew what you were getting, so you have nothing to complain about.
If you don't own an iPhone, just leave. You have no right to rant on and on about how Apple has screwed you over because you can't modify iPhone software when you don't even have an iPhone. That's sour grapes, and it doesn't have any affect on you. Some people are not bothered at all with buying a product and expecting it to perform as advertised (and then hoping we might be able to hack it), but if you are bothered by that, go buy a different phone and please shut up.
Additionally, open-source != public domain. Most open source software is licensed with restrictions, whereas public domain is freely usable in any application. Even so, it is nearly impossible for Apple to "steal" UNIX software to use in their OS. There is nothing in the license for the UNIX software that Apple uses that states they cannot sell a product based on that software, so they have done nothing wrong, technically or ethically.
Also, how can you say Steve Jobs is sick for money (in reference to working for Apple), when his annual Apple salary is USD $1.00?
All in all, you sound like an idiot. Think before you type.
(P.S. $0.99 is a better price for ringtones than you will get from any US carrier).
Ooo. Ethan's argument sounds very much like the noises the RIAA was making before. "You want our music, you play by our rules. If you don't like it, go look somewhere else."
Funny how everything's become relative these days.
Yeah, it sounds like it, but it doesn't fit the same way with content. What I was saying about the iPhone is that we should expect it to work as advertised, but that outside of that the most we can do is hope our hacks will work for it and hope that they won't be broken. No promises - Apple doesn't have a responsibility to ensure our hacks continue to function, or that modifying low-level software doesn't break the phone.
The same concept does not apply to content as strongly. We all deserve the right to know that we can use the content we buy, music in this case, in any medium, on any player, in the way that we please. This is because we purchase the right to listen to a specific piece of music, we don't purchase some generic right to use an AAC file in a limited fashion.
I hope I'm not misunderstood, I am heavily against DRM on music and TV shows, and wary of it in movies.
i agree about the iphone but not the content... i believe that it doesn't apply just as strongly to content. since content is not something that you can physically own, what you are being sold is the right to a copy of that content. if the terms of the sale are such that you can't copy it, or use it on other players or whatever, then that's just part of that particular sale. if you don't like those terms, then buy the cd and rip it.
it's often difficult, but i think it's important to look at these things in the same way the companies do; in terms of market and cold capital. those are the fundamental motivators of how a company will make an agreement (sale) with you as a consumer. if enough people thought that drm made a song purchase lose enough value to not be worth 99c, then nobody would buy the songs and apple and others would have to change the terms.
you don't have a inalienable right to own things that you want, no matter how much you want them. music is hard because it's emotional, but in our current system it is a commodity and is just like any other product. if you don't like the terms, don't buy. if you do, don't complain. if enough people don't buy, the terms will change... if not then you're in the minority and not powerful enough to influence the market. (collusion and unfair practices notwithstanding... the above is put forward assuming illegal business practices would be halted by the government as they should... if the government isn't doing that, then take it up with them).
You are right that in practice we are simply purchasing a copy of content, like a song. This is unfortunate, however. I guess I was speaking more in idealistic terms - how content should be from a consumer's perspective. Ideally we would purchase a song or CD and in doing so obtain both a copy of that content and the right to listen to that content in any way we like. This just makes sense - you buy music, you can listen to it regardless of whether you are using an iPod, Zune, Linux, or any unforeseen future device or method. (As a side note, the copy you receive when you purchase the content would serve primarily so that you could view/listen to the content, and secondarily as proof that you own the right to listen to the content.)
Unfortunately we are bound by the ridiculous restrictions of the labels, the RIAA and similar organizations. DRM is not an answer to controlling music piracy as it is always to restrictive. If there are multiple DRM technologies in the market, different content is provided under different DRM technologies, and content from two sources does not work together. This causes confusion and the inability of the consumer to experience content how they choose. On the other end of things, if there is one DRM technology that all content is distributed under there is a dangerous monopoly born. It's likely that consumers would be worse off in this case, considering the non-competitive situation. This kind of situation can also be considered unlawful in many places.
"I know you are afraid of the unknown and want to stay in your little pre-made by Apple box. I'm not faulting you for it.
Just don't judge us for experiencing the highs and lows of "thinking different."
Sheep!"
c'mon...and you're not judging us??...everyone who applies 1.1.1 is a lemming following the evil apple and at&t empires???...i'm all for anyone hacking the phone - more power to you!...but don't call the people who choose not to "sheep"...some people are perfectly content to live with the device as apple provides it and don't have the time or energy to keep up with a forked os...that doesn't make them inferior to you...
and before you criticize apple and at&t too much, just remember that it's through their hard work that you're able to hack such a cool device in the first place...
look We at 9to5Mac agree with you here. 1.1.1ers aren't sheep...you've made an educated decision to upgrade you phone knowing the consequences.
However, for some reason some of the 1.1.1ers seem to think that 1.0.2haxers should not be crying. We are not crying we are just trying to keep up the morale. We think we have the better operating system and technically we can choose to become one of you. however 1.1.1ers can't choose to become one of us anymore.
Heh..kinda like Circumcision I guess. Whatever you have is what's best
[quote=admin]look We at 9to5Mac agree with you here. 1.1.1ers aren't sheep...you've made an educated decision to upgrade you phone knowing the consequences.[/quote]
how exactly is a big picture of sheep running through a field NOT calling 1.1.1ers sheep. personally i don't give a crap, but if you're going to say something then own up to it.
So tell me, who made you buy an iPhone? You are truly a victim.