iPhone unlockers ought to beware, iPhone 2.0.1 firmware update accomplishes more than a few bug fixes becuase it was built by Apple to be a better mouse trap. Tom Yager reports for InfoWorld that the cat and mouse game between Apple and iPhone unlockers has intensified, putting a proper kibosh on the iPhone open source party for those who choose upgrade. It's Apple's way of tightening their vice on the wildly popular 'Dev Team' and their merry band of iPhone jailbreakers.
"Apple's 2.0.1 firmware update accomplishes what hackers had claimed Apple couldn't do: It relocks an iPhone to AT&T. The original boast was predicated on the fact that through all of its prior updates, Apple had never updated the baseband (cellular radio) firmware. Well, 2.0.1 breaks this tradition, and it breaks unlocking," Tom Yager blogs for InfoWorld.
"Maybe the iPhone open source community will hack the iPhone open again. In the meantime, it's still possible to operate an iPhone or iPod Touch with open source jailbreak by avoiding the 2.0.1 firmware update, but as it does with iTunes, Apple is adept at turning voluntary updates into a practical necessity by making related products dependent on the latest update," Yager writes.
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