Apple ended its secretiveness on unlocking the iPhone via third - party hacks with a warning Monday that unlocked iPhones may become inoperable .
“ Apple has discover that many of the unauthorised iPhone unlocking programs useable on the Internet cause irreparable terms to the iPhone ’s software system , which will in all likelihood leave in the limited iPhone becoming for good inoperable when a future Apple - supplied iPhone software program update is install , ” the company enounce in a command .
Asked to clarify the statement , Apple representatives said they “ are not proactively try out to disable any iPhone that has been hack or unlocked by software . ”
The first hint that Apple would take a more strong-growing standpoint toward unlocking hacks follow last week during the company ’s London insistence event to announce the U.K. ship day of the month for the iPhone . Asked by a newsperson what Apple was doing to lay off people from unlocking their earpiece , CEO Steve Jobs call it “ a quat and mouse plot . ”
“ I ’m not sure if we are the cat or the mouse . People will seek to break in , and it ’s our job to terminate them breaking in , ” he added .
Apple made it very unmortgaged that it would not be responsible for for any price because of the installation of third - party unlocking package .
“ substance abuser who make unauthorized modifications to the computer software on their iPhone violate their iPhone software licence agreement and void their guarantee , ” the company said in its statement . “ The permanent unfitness to use an iPhone due to installing unlocking software is not cover under the iPhone ’s warranty .
The caller said that the next software update for the iPhone would be usable by and by this week . That update will let in the of late announced iTunes Wi - Fi computer storage .
Macworld ’s Philip Michaels contributed to this report .
