Apple dan Praktek iPhone Unlocking
September 25, 2007
Akhirnya Apple menentukan sikap mengenai praktek unlocking iPhone.
Hari ini Apple mengeluarkan satu press release resmi mengenai kebijakan yang berkaitan dengan praktek “unlock” pada produk mereka, iPhone. Seperti yang banyak diberitakan (dan bahkan sukses dilakukan di Indonesia), praktek unlocking iPhone adalah suatu praktek untuk mengakali iPhone agar dapat menggunakan provider lain selain AT&T.
Menurut Apple, praktek unlock pada perangkat iPhone akan menghilangkan garansi resmi dari Apple. Selain itu, program-program iPhone unlocking ini dapat merusak perangkat itu sendiri. Namun, yang paling penting menurut mereka, iPhone yang telah di-unlock akan mengalami konflik dengan update resmi dari Apple. Bahkan kemungkinan besar iPhone akan gagal bekerja setelah di-update. Apple sendiri berencana merilis update software terbaru untuk iPhone minggu ini.
Saya sendiri sudah mendengar jauh-jauh hari tentang praktek iPhone unlocking ini. Praktek yang telah dilakukan di Hong Kong (jauh sebelum orang-orang di Amerika dan Eropa sana menyombongkan diri bahwa mereka berhasil melakukan unlock). iPhone yang telah di-unlock ini sudah dijual di pasar gelap beberapa minggu setelah iPhone diluncurkan.
Usaha Apple tampaknya akan sia-sia, karena belum ada satu hari berita ini dirilis, sudah ada yang memposting cara mengakali konflik ini. Hal ini sudah biasa terjadi kok di lingkungan gadget. Anda ingat mod-mod Playstation, Playstation 2, XBOX, ataupun XBOX 360 yang dibuat oleh kreatifitas para modder? Gerakan mereka dibatasi oleh produsen hardware. Pada awalnya, mesin-mesin tersebut dikunci agar tidak bisa memainkan game bajakan. Tidak berapa lama, para modder berhasil mengembangkan mod yang lebih baik lagi hingga bisa melangkahi batasan para produsen.
Inilah yang menurut saya akan terjadi pada iPhone, para “unlocker” tentu akan membuat modifikasi yang lebih baik lagi sehingga para pengguna tetap dapat mengupdate iPhone mereka tanpa ada konflik. Terutama buat kita di Indonesia, kita kan jagonya ngotak-ngatik handphone (baik handphone biasa atau smart phone) Tunggu saja nanti pada saat iPhone masuk ke Indonesia (yang kemungkinan juga pasti akan menggunakan satu provider). Siap-siap saja melihat reklame seperti ini dimana-mana (terutama di Roxy :P):
“MENERIMA UNLOCK IPHONE”
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Okay, life must go on, right? So with the spirit of Sumpah Pemuda and the recent festive of Pesta Blogger 2007. I officially announce that:
It's just around the corner, not very far away.
The reason? Well you can say that I'm getting bored with Wordpress and I want to try something new. But trust me, I won't move it anywhere else in the future, I will use patvandiest.com as my main blog, always. I promise you that!
So please... please update your bookmark, I will forever graceful if you do that. But if you are reading my blog through my Feedburner account, worry not, I will automatically update the link. That goes to my other social networking related link.
I won't delete this blog, though. I will keep it as past archives of my writings.
So, sorry for this inconvinience. I hope you don't mind. See you at my other room.
Sincerely Yours,
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- # - And so begin the brick wars! On the axis side, it's Steve Jobs and its Apple. The Allied side consists of peoples who unlocked their iPhone. But nooo, they're not the only ones. According to Scoble, some regular iPhone user has the same problem too after the update that Apple released. It's getting hotter now. :) - #
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