Apples' handcuffs
I wrote about that a couple of days ago: I wrote about the Apple's will to brick your unlocked iPhone during the last firmware update (version 1.1.1).
It's a clear will from Apple as DVD John pointed out days ago. Now, with the new firmware out there, it's confirmed that many unlocked iphones became just useless bricks to keep papers on your desk in order.
Even for the updated-and-not-bricked iphones, Gizmodo now strongly suggests not to buy it: it's not about the SIM lock anymore, the problem now is that the firmware update wiped out the cool features added by 3rd developers, features that made the iphone just moooore attractive and cool than the stock model offered (and closed) by Apple.
A last minute update lets us know that the iphone Dev Wiki Forum found a way to downgrade (restore) the 1.0 firmware in the bricked iphones: problem is that after the downgrade you can use your iphone as an handheld but not as a phone, making calls. Your resuscitated JesusPhone will refuse to use any SIM card.
In the new DVD John's post (titled "Think Closed") points out that the choice made by Apple is really a bad ass move and that companies like Nokia or Sony Ericsson never made such a thing. I quote from his post
When Steve Jobs claimed the iPhone was 5 years ahead of every other phone, was he talking about the iPhone’s revolutionary handcuffs?
Well... what do you think now? Are you going to wait in line in front of an Apple Store? Or maybe would be better to wait for something else, something open?