Apple Plans To Remotely Kill Your iPhone If It’s Jailbroken

If they kill my phone, I will immediately move to an Android. Apple does not rule my life, I do.

Figures. Has anyone set an over/under for when to expect a lawsuit about this? I guess you’d have to wait until it goes into effect but still if the line is drawn right I’d take some of that action.

OMFG! And really is this legal???

I’m selling an iPhone, 3GS 16gb… oh wait! I cannot because you’ll be an unauthorized user and it will brick at some point!

How LAME is this? Jobs: Seriously dude… you’re becoming more powerful than your brain capacity to control that power.

@cgroharing … uhm, if Apple forces you to buy an Android, they ARE ruling your life.

Third party vendors of camera blinds (little Homer Simpson faces to stick on your camera from day one) will be the hit. Apple will see Homer all over.
Replacing the data with funny voices, false heartbeats and whatnot could be even more fun.
But seriously, just because they patent it doesn’t mean a product like that would be accepted or that they are actually going to make it. So cool off everyone.
Reaper: Your 3GS would become even more valuable. It won’t get another software update anyways, so all is well.

Sucks to own a Apple Phone.
I have the Droid X. Job’s need to pull his head out of his backside.

looks like steve jobs is getting a bit too agressive

That is NOT legal. That is willful destruction of private property. Your device was SOLD to you, not LICENSED.

It’s unbelievable!
this is not legal, i bought my cell phone! how they can legaly f… my Iphone ????

well that could certainly be problem, but i maybe have solution on my blog. or dont I? check it out by yourself I still can show you some real art :) .

Finally… I would never jail-break my phone, because I want new features to come natively. If people bug Apple enough, instead of hacking Apple’s devices and angering them, maybe they would release new features instead of blocking them. Jail-breakers hurt potential features more than embracing them. If people want to fool around with prototype features, they should sign up as developers and download pre-release iOS versions instead of hacking products.

Jailbreaking is way overrated. It turns your OS unstable and ultimately your phone will crash, causing you to restore in iTunes, and all the money you spent in Cydia is wasted.

Jailbreaking is a waste of time and energy and always, ALWAYS ends the same. A restored iPhone and an oath to never try it again.

i love my iphone, but they start doing this. i can just bricked it myself.

Well, now people might realize why apple produces such terrible products. They are even worse than Microsoft.

@the0nly0ne <- you're a bit naive if you think that's a plausible option for people who have legitimate reasons to not want to be put in an electronic jail.

Everyone sounds shocked that Apple is doing this like it is something new and abnormal, but there is already a precedent for it. Microsoft recently just erased all XBox live users who jailbroke their Xboxs to use pirated software, but no one complained about that. At least Apple will give warning, Microsoft just said, sorry and cut you off.

Also, Sony updated the PS3 to get around being hacked for pirated software removing the ability to use other OSs. If the rumors that the the PS3 has indeed been hacked again, I suspect that Sony will be proactive to remove this threat. To be honest in about a year or so when the Android OS becomes a huge and lasting player to the smartphone world, don’t be surprised when Google starts protecting their products and limiting the pirating of their property as well. Because they will.

This doesn’t necessarily make Apple’s position correct, but it’s not a new or novel concept in the tech world. And I don’t think it’s going to change either.

If apple even thinks about erasing my iPhone 4 I will sue there ass, what if I’m out and something happens how are people are gonna talk to me or how will I call them

Really Steve jobs your being a bigger fag first you make a phone that never get signal and this all I have to say is duck u apple!!!

I don’t get why everyone is so surprised by this. “Use your device how we tell you to” has been Apple’s MO since…well, pretty much since they launched. No we’re not compatible with non-proprietary software, no you can’t use non-Apple hardware, no we won’t license any apps that compete with our own.

And FYI Jobs has also put his name to a patent for a program which requires the user to *respond to* advertising before they can continue to use their hardware. Given the various reports of hyper-secrecy, sub-contractor employee suicide, legitiousness to (nearly) make Monsanto blush and when that doesn’t work, good old “Well we’ll just break it then!!” attitude, why do people still buy in to the hype that Apple create for their rubbish? I fell for it the first time with the 2nd gen iPod. 8 months later when it wouldn’t take a charge and both Apple and the retailer refused to repair/replace, (customers outside the US aren’t entitled to actual *service*) I learned my lesson. Creative for music, HTC/Sony Ericsson for phones, various for computers. Apple can get bent!

Remember the Apple 1984 ad? It looks like Apple is the guy on the big screen talking about “A garden of pure ideology” and the knockout blonde with the sledgehammer is Android.

I’m just waiting for someone to come up a cartoon for that one.