And they say all the FUD comes from the Microsoft side of the fence:
Apple Inc said on Monday that programs available on the Internet
that allow the iPhone to be used with other service providers besides
AT&T's Cingular network can irreparably damage the device.
Apple,
which also makes the Mac computer, the iPod digital music player and
runs the iTunes online store, said once an Apple-supplied software
update is installed on the iPhone, it "will likely result in the
modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable."
Since the
iPhone's introduction at the end of June, Apple has said it expects to
sell 1 million units by the end of this month. In the first two days it
was on sale, Apple said it sold 270,000 of the gadgets.
"We are not doing anything proactively to disable iPhones that
have been hacked or unlocked," Phil Schiller, Apple's head of worldwide
product marking told Reuters.
There is one bit of good news in all this: Apple revealed as part of this threat that the iPhone version of the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store would go live this week.