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Originally Posted by Titan
They wrote it on the box (if they did) just because the consumer failed to read the box, that is not apple or ATTs fault.
I am certain Apple had a marketing reason to go with one provider. Probably cash, but also look at all the free advertising they have received from this decision.
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That question is actually in the courts in the US right now.
Can you apply conditions on a product after the "Right of First Sale" has been concluded? Do those rights apply to subsequent purchasers? If I went out and bought an iPhone of someone, would I be bound by the same restrictions? What if I never knew of restrictions because the previous owner threw the box out? How far can those "shrink wrap" licenses go?
Personally, I don't think any company should be able to tell me what to do with a product after I purchase it. They shouldn't be able to apply future conditions on it. In the case of phones, even here in Canada they don't put any conditions on the phone, they just force you to purchase a contract when you get a phone. Hell, you can use the phone as a butt plug for as much as Telus or Rogers cares, as long as you fulfill the agreements of the contract.
And as for warrantees, if I do something stupid to my phone and break it the phone company isn't required to fix it. But if I haven't done anything wrong with the phone, if everything I have done is perfectly legal and then the phone company does something to ruin my phone, then I think the phone company is responsible for repairing the damage they created.
If you flash the BIOS as supplied by the motherboard manufacturer and is hoses your system, yes the Motherboard manufacturer is going to help you fix it. If you screw up your bios flashing a custom bios, then you have no one to blame but yourself. But flashing with the correct bios and that causes you to fubar your system, that is the motherboard manufacturers oblication to make right.
In this case, I don't think Apple should be obligated to unlock the phone, but repairing to a previous or current firmware level seems reasonable to me. Apple should not be allowed to make a make a phone non-functional simply because they don't agree with how the customer is using it.