Apple finally weighs in on iPhone hacks, unlocking... READ UP!

Merely three days after hearing of one user's run-in with Apple over his unlocked iPhone, the company has released an official statement warning users that "unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs" could cause "irreparable damage to the iPhone's software." Furthermore, the firm stated that these apps could result in the handset becoming "permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed" -- you know, like the one coming "later this week" that includes the iTunes WiFi Music Store. As if that wasn't bad enough, the release also notes that "unauthorized modifications to the iPhone's software" violates the iPhone software license agreement and "voids the warranty." Ouch.

We already had this threat.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5426287#5426287
Basically it says what we forum jockeys have been saying from day 1:
Hack the phone at your own risk.
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Install iTunes on your Acer and you can back up the iPhone. Or back it up to iCloud. If you do not back it up you can get it unlocked, but you will lose all of your content.
You can get iTunes from http://www.apple.com/itunes.
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Oh, okey, but when do you guys think it will come out? I was hoping for Black Friday, but it didn't came out as i was hopning :/ When do you think it will come? Is it like the last part of november or the begining of desember or will it be in the end of this desember?

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