I’ve met a couple of people in China using the iPhone but due to the fact that it’s locked to AT&T in the U.S, the aren’t using it as a phone…only an internet device and iPod.
When I pushed them about the fact that they spent so much to not have a functional phone, they said that they were fairly confident that a crack would be available at some point. I personally doubt that will happen anytime soon without a combination of re-chipping and patching the kernel.
After thinking about this for a while, I concluded that an announcement of a hackers ability to unlock the iPhone to be used with a different SIM card would initially cause the AAPL stock to climb. The validation and release of the hack would cause a flood of orders for the iPhone in the U.S. and overseas.
In the history of devices and/or the hacking of such devices has there ever been the probability that hacking a particular device would dramatically benefit the manufacturer in terms of market share and stock price?
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