1.1.1 and the Bricks — The One Bullet Apple Had to Bite
I can not say I don’t feel sorry for all those people who had their iPhone turned into bricks, I must say how fortunate I am that my iPhone is still at 1.0.2 and fully functional with Fido, and I am very grateful that the development communities had came up with solutions to revive the bricked iPhones so quickly. However, I don’t think bricking the iPhone is intentional on Apple’s part, because I think the 1.0.x to 1.1.x transition is the one bullet Apple had to bite to get the iPhone to a stable state. As many other people had pointed out that he iPhone’s 1.0.x OS is just a hacked together mess Apple had to rush to get the iPhone out the door, and 1.1.1 is much cleaner, more secure and is really the way the OS should have been in the first place. It doesn’t make much sense for Apple to spent too much resource and effort to ensure that third-party hacks(unlock or otherwise) on the 1.0.x’s already-hacked-together-OS would still function under the 1.1.1 OS.