Re: [Fed-Talk] iPhone DVT Team Jailbreaks iPhone 3G
Re: [Fed-Talk] iPhone DVT Team Jailbreaks iPhone 3G
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] iPhone DVT Team Jailbreaks iPhone 3G
- From: Timothy J Miller <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:26:22 -0500
On Jul 17, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Fletcher, Boyd C. CIV US USJFCOM JFL
J9935 wrote:
I know unlocking is legal, however Congress should make the it
illegal to
provide phones that can not be unlocked. in a ideal situation the
vendor
could sell a locked phone at a subsidized price and an unlocked
phone at a
different price.
Nothing prevents this today. E.g., Palm now sells the Centro
unfettered directly from their website--alongside the service-locked
phones. Same goes for some other phones, though not all models from
all makers are so available.
IMHO, the only reason Apple *doesn't* do this now comes down to *one
single feature*: Visual Voicemail. This requires service-side
support, and in exchange for building it the services extracted
exclusivity agreements. And for whatever reason Apple felt the
feature was compelling enough to cave on it.
It's a shame, really, since I think Apple could've gotten a better
deal--like selling AT&T & T-Mobile SIM cards straight from the Apple
store--if they didn't need the service side support. This could've
been the thing that broke the US cell market wide open. But 'twas not
to be.
Yet. We'll see when the AT&T exclusivity agreement expires. In 3
years.
-- Tim
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