Over at CNET Blogs, Don "Lips of a Vixen" Reisinger has installed fresh batteries into his ACME Conspiracy Finder and pointed it firmly at the head honchos over at Apple. His belief: that not only will the company continue to sit on their hands and distract themselves with truffles over the spate of iPhone unlock methods, but that Steve Jobs in fact expected and wanted it to happen all along.
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From the monthly archives:
August 2007
Was unofficial unlock on Apple’s iPhone roadmap all along?
Over at CNET Blogs, Don "Lips of a Vixen" Reisinger has installed fresh batteries into his ACME Conspiracy Finder and pointed it firmly at the head honchos over at Apple. His belief: that not only will the company continue to sit on their hands and distract themselves with truffles over the spate of iPhone unlock methods, but that Steve Jobs in fact expected and wanted it to happen all along.
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Installer.app catalogue to swell with free packaging offer
I should imagine that, as a third-party app programmer, the one thing worse than having your genitals hacked off by ninja badgers would be nobody using your software. And unfortunately marketing and publicity requires very different brain muscles from those necessary for coding, so it's not enough to assume that where one aptitude goes the other follows. Thankfully, the guys behind Installer.app - probably the simplest way to load third-party ... continued »
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iPhone laser engraving
As the equivalent of tattoos for your gadgets, laser engraving manages to provoke the same love it/hate it response - some view it as an awesome act of self-expression and personalisation, while others see it as a permanent marring of a tech toy and something guaranteed to kill resale values. Still, if you're a true geek you'll love the idea of a laser so feast your eyes on Epilog Laser's ... continued »
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First native iPhone IM app: Apollo IM in beta
There's no shortage of instant-messaging options billed as ideal for the iPhone, but up until now unless you've wanted to pay AT&T for an SMS message each way then you've been forced to use a web-based client. It's not ideal - there are limits on what notifications and the like they can give, and it's hardly integrated with the rest of the handset - but beggars can't, as the saying goes, ... continued »
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Photoset documents iPhone hardware unlock
Now that the AT&T legal monkeys have set their sights on software unlocking methods, you may be thinking the hardware alternative is a more tempting one. If that's the case, then this Flickr gallery documenting the stages of the process might make your own attempt more straightforward; after all, there's no such thing as too much preparation when the potential outcome is a bricked iPhone!
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iPhone unlock software on hold after AT&T threat
In a twist that literally nobody on planet Earth saw coming, iPhoneUnlocking.com were forced to cancel their unlock software launch on Saturday due to apparent legal threats from AT&T, Apple's telco partner. Releasing a statement on their company blog, doubts were expressed whether the software would ever be allowed to see the light of day:
"After saying they were phoning on behalf of AT&T, the law firm presented issues such as ... continued »
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CBS lends weight to cut-price iPhone before end of year
The glamorous Stacey Tisdale of CBS News has jumped upon the mini-iPhone bandwagon in their latest video bulletin, reporting that Apple has filed a patent for a "cut down" version of their cellphone supposedly on sale before the end of the year for under $300. There's little indication of whether this is new news sourced by CBS or simply a rehashing of the various stories we and the rest of ... continued »
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