{"id":198961,"date":"2007-09-24T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/24\/apple-threatens-iphone-users\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T03:55:00","slug":"apple-threatens-iphone-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/24\/apple-threatens-iphone-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Threatens iPhone Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is now claiming that iPhones that have been hacked to be usable with non AT&amp;T phone services <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/09\/24\/technology\/iphone.ap\/index.htm?postversion=2007092419\">may shut down when the push out their next software update<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8220;This has nothing to do with proactively disabling a phone that is unlocked or hacked,&#8221; Phil Schiller, Apple&#8217;s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in an interview. &#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate that some of these programs have caused damage to the iPhone software, but Apple cannot be responsible for &#8230; those consequences.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bull.  Apple is threatening its users for what they do to <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">their<\/span> phones, and just as with the iPods, it&#8217;s setting out to break the phones, and the hacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is now claiming that iPhones that have been hacked to be usable with non AT&amp;T phone services may shut down when the push out their next software update. &#8220;This has nothing to do with proactively disabling a phone that is unlocked or hacked,&#8221; Phil Schiller, Apple&#8217;s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198961"}],"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=198961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}