No cash accepted for iPhone

Posted by Leo on October 31st, 2007 at 07:33am

A recent news - to purchase an iPhone, you must use a bankcard or visa card with your name on it. Want to buy it with cash? Well, you can’t.

This is the latest policy of Apple, trying to prevent people from buying the phone and unlock & resell them.

For the ones not familiar with this: buying an iPhone in the US would tie you to the AT&T network. You cannot use other carriers’ service with iPhone.

There are heaps of websites teaching people how to unlock a phone, both by altering the hardware (with a bit of skills & luck with soldering iron) or cracking the software.

These unlocked phones are estimated to cost Apple eventually - because people won’t be tied to the AT&T network anymore, which would pay Apple for each sign up, someone believes.

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