{"id":198872,"date":"2007-10-02T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/02\/apple-iphone-sue-different\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T04:22:00","slug":"apple-iphone-sue-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/02\/apple-iphone-sue-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPhone: Sue Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about <a href=\"http:\/\/informationweek.com\/blog\/main\/archives\/2007\/09\/iphone_users_ta.html\">Apple &#8220;bricking&#8221; iPhones that have been modified<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are some problems for Apple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is clearly deliberately malicious code.<\/li>\n<li>They have bricked some <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">unmodified<\/span> iPhones as a result.<\/li>\n<li>They have worked as a corporation to do this, which means that they are likely covered by the RICO statutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That being said, I don&#8217;t want an iPhone.  I want a phone that works first as a phone, these hard to talk on square bricks as PDAs don&#8217;t cut it for me.<\/p>\n<p>If I want a PDA phone (maybe when it gets cheap enough on EBay), I&#8217;ll get something like the Samsung SPH-I500.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img503.imageshack.us\/img503\/9433\/samsungi500qd6.gif\" \/><br \/>It&#8217;s marginally larger than any clamshell phone, and it has a Graffiti\u2122 pad right above the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">real phone buttons<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not in production any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about Apple &#8220;bricking&#8221; iPhones that have been modified. There are some problems for Apple: This is clearly deliberately malicious code. They have bricked some unmodified iPhones as a result. They have worked as a corporation to do this, which means that they are likely covered by the RICO statutes. That being said, I don&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}