250,000 Unlocked Apple iPhones Sold
Till date, there have been lots of issues created regarding Apple iPhone being sold exclusively through AT&T network for the first five years. Now, Apple has released the sales figure of iPhone that mentioned that one out of every six units sold covered an unlocked version that would run on an unauthorized networks.
Elaborating more, Chief Operating Officer Timothy Cook said that 250,000 of the nearly 1.4 million iPhones sold are predicted to be purchased by consumers who were willing to unlock the devices or modifying the device to work on a network other than AT&T Inc.’s.
It has also been discovered that people have been buying five phones at a time through Apple store in US to modify the software which unlock the locked iPhone to AT&T service. Later they would resell the same modified phone overseas.
Apple had noticed the same. Thus, the company had also developed the iPhone software update to forbidden the hacker to unlock the devices. The hackers describe the rendered unlocked devices inoperable, as turning the gadget into a “brick.” To answer to this software, hacker groups have thus developed software that bypasses Apple’s update and allows “bricked” phones to work again.
It is pretty obvious that the price drop of the Apple iPhone, which created chaos, has pushed the sales figures whether it is a locked or an unlocked version of the device.
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