Jailbreaking in-store

To use an iPhone, you need to sign a 2-year contract with AT&T. Well that's not exactly true. You can use their prepaid service if you (intentionally) fail a credit check. If you don't like the deals offered by AT&T, but you still want an iPhone, its as simple as running some software to unlock the phone.

Oops, you just voided your warranty.

Want to install third-party applications on your new mobile device? No problem.

Shit, you just did it again.

Truth is, you can't even really put files on the thing without losing any support from Apple for their hardware, or even having Apple's future software updates lock your device.

While Apple should be free to cut deals with wireless carriers that use their hardware, their usage terms are becoming increasingly unreasonable.

Once an iPhone VOIP app and WiMax internet service are available, cell carriers will be irrelevant and everyone will use their iPod to make phone calls. Everyone hates their wireless provider, and Apple has the opportunity to come in and lay the ground work for more open computing and communication. Perhaps they are doing just that, but conforming to the status quo for now to make future offerings seem that much more revolutionary.

But for now? Screw you, Apple, We'll just jailbreak the devices right in your store if we want.




And if its no longer supported, we'll just sue.