I hope this puts Apple and AT&T in check for coming up with a stupid 5-year exclusive agreement, then deciding to brick people's phones that manage to break the weak lock placed on the i-phone:

Lawsuit accuses Apple of unlawful iPhone monopoly - Yahoo! News

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This was started here first by me on Saturday, August 4th, 2007:

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I don't see this suit going anywhere.

It kind of falls into a grey area. If you want an iphone that bad, either you go with AT&T or nothing. It was pretty rotten of Apple to allow AT&T to be the only carrier to
offer the iphone, but the thought behind it was (initially) that only AT&T had the ability
to support all the iphone's features. However, it's like anything else, if you mod a phone or unlock a phone and brick it, your warranty is null and void. However, for Apple to knowingly and vindictively brick the iphones with an update is pretty bad. If they don't lose the lawsuit, their reputation as a company will still take a hit.

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Oy not another thread on this!!!

Keep it friendly peeps!!!

Personal note: This suit is friviulous with no chance of success.

Truthfully, AT&T was the only carrier that would agree to Apple's draconian practices. They hit up other carriers first. If I were a carrier, no way would I want to do business with Apple the way that Apple has done with the iPhone. One should be able to leave the carrier store with a device already working for one.

i doubt its going to go anywhere

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I doubt much will happen with this lawsuit -- but, it's just another sign that more and more people are becoming disillusions with Apple. Will public opinion keep moving in that direction?

I really don't think the unlocking problem is going to affect them. First, most people and I say most because the largest estimate I've seen of people purchasing phones for the purpose of unlocking is 10%. We can all do that math and figure out that the other 90% is probably pretty happy with their purchase. Yes, Apple stumbled by reducing the price from a PR standpoint but thats consumer reality and I don't think that backlash will last if it already hasn't died. Mac sales are up, ipod sales will obviously peak during the next 3 months as we enter the holiday season. I think Apple is firing on all cylinders right now and while they haven't pleased everyone with the iphone, I don't think the general public is as informed as us forum users who follow these stories and stay up to date.

Vista failures and drawbacks have given Apple an open door and while have they haven't capitalized on that the pitch hasn't gone by either. There is a void right now from Microsoft as they move back to XP and onto a post Vista world and Apple if they can react quickly enough just might be able to capture another few percentage points in the market.

Apple's "response" to Vista, the new version of OS X (10.5 "Leopard") should ship this month.

And for what it's worth, it seems that the update bricked as many un-modified, un-unlocked iPhones as it did modified ones. (Several major tech blogs have conducted admittedly unscientific polls on the subject.) The phones were bricked because of a flaw in the update, not because Apple decided to brick all the evil hackers' iPhones. The update was designed to re-lock the iPhones to AT&T and restore them to their original state, but not turn them into $400 paperweights...this time.

I can understand why he guy is going through this but I will agree, I don't see it going very far. I didn't know that Apple and ATT had this contract for 5 years. I thought it was less.

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