Why won't apple supply unlock codes

why wont apple supply unlock codes to customers, whe they are quite happy to supply the codes to carriers
i bought an iphone 4 in june i was told it was unlocked, but wasnt informed that the 1st sim inserted would make the phone lock to that specific carrier, (orange)
orange will not unlock the phone as they say they didnt lock the phone to their network,and the phone was bought via a 3rd party (carphone warehouse) so they cant unlock it, i am going round in circles being passed back nd forth all i want is to be able to use another network on my iphone and no one is taking responsibilty for it

yeah i agree, i'm even will to pay the unlocking fee, but they keep saying they haven't locked it, even the lad it the orange shop was baffled by it too, he rang orange cs and they cut him off at the finish oh well i'l just have to keep trying with orange,
i google my query & aparently there's another post in the discussions similar to this
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4382197?start=0&tstart=0
also just had another email from cpw they say its a condition off apple that all phones sold unlocked apart from apple have to be locked via the 1st sim , ridiculous if you ask me , i could of easily just went to apple if i'd known

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