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Originally Posted by arsenal
I don't think it really matters. There is a huge community of people out there that are unlocking and enhancing the iPhone for their use.
No matter what Rogers, AT&T "lock" you into, there will be a way around it.
Plus on the upside, there wont an easy way to tell if the phone has been unlocked or not, at least from a cosmetic point of view.
I guess it comes down to if Rogers is going to put in their own software to track phones that do get unlocked. Kind of like a phone home "feature".
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This goes back to a different thread topic, but I'd really like to not be a criminal simply for using the features of a device that I paid for. Locking features sucks.
And in other news, the unlimited data plans from AT&T for the 3G iPhones will cost more:
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pi...rticleid=25791 Also, it appears that Apple won't be getting a cut of the new 3G sales, at least not the same way it was sharing revenue from monthly contracts with the original iPhones.
So AT&T will be subsidizing the cost of the iPhone in order to offer it for the price promised by Jobs and plans to make up the difference based on higher data plan charges:
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In the near term, AT&T anticipates that the new agreement will likely result in some pressure on margins and earnings, reflecting the costs of subsidized device pricing, which, in turn, is expected to drive increased subscriber volumes.
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