Steve please, talk to us about the iPhone
An open letter is something never seen before in the technology industry but its popularity is becoming somewhat weird. The CEO of Apple, Inc, Steve Jobs put out a letter about “Thoughts on Music” on February of this year that made everyone talk. His thinking about DRM caused controversy among those within the music industry and sympathy among those who follow his career. Personally, DRM does not cause much trouble to me; its transparent to me, so I did not paid much attention to it back then.
A much bigger issue rises now with the introduction of the iPhone, some people where skeptical about the device capabilities and now they that they have been proof wrong another debate surrounds the company. Legally they are attached to a contract with a phone carrier that in my opinion, has not demonstrated being pro-consumer at all. I have my motives to dislike this phone carrier but that is not what concerns me the most.
The hacking community is trying desperately to “free” the iPhone from this carrier, and a number of success stories are showing up in the media everyday. Ken from Mac OS Ken, a podcaster, was talking about something on his show that made me think is time for Steve Jobs to make another of his “open letters.” There are some serious contradictions out there about hacking your phone and many expect someone to clarify these things to us, the consumers.
While a ruling from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), makes legal to unlock your phone to go with another carrier, what does this implies in the iPhone world. Can this phone carrier take legal actions against the consumer? Can Apple lock our phones with a firmware update to hacked iPhones? I’m not asking Apple to give legal consultation to us, but to tell us where they stand as far dealing with “hacked” iPhones.
I understand that this carrier can take legal actions about companies that try to sell unlocking software, but what about if it becomes open source software. If I can legally activate my iPhone with, let say T-Mobile, what is you take on this Apple? Would you lock me out of future updates? Would you push an update that will ruin my experience just because I’m not using your preferred carrier? Steve please, talk to me about the iPhone.
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