This post was published 14 years 1 month 7 days ago. A number of changes have been made to the site since then, so please contact me if anything is broken or seems wrong.Speaking of Apple, it has come out recently that consumers can only buy an iPhone with a credit or debit card; cash isn’t accepted any more. This restriction comes as an addition to the two-phone-per-person limit enforced since the iPhone’s release. An employee at the Apple Store in New York’s SoHo neighborhood says Apple needs to do it so they can track who buys the iPhones. The estimated 250,000 unlocked phones are costing them money — up to $4,500,000, according to some estimates — and Apple wants to crack down.
This whole business of unlocking and relocking the iPhone is getting ridiculous; it’s becoming like the cat-and-mouse game that is patching Windows vulnerabilities. If only Apple would just consent to have people use their wonderful (from what I’ve heard) device on a network that doesn’t suck…
