iPhone – To unlock or not to unlock?

Should you unlock your Apple iPhone or not, that is the question on every iPhone owner’s lips these days, and more than likely every potential iPhone owner’s as well.

Despite the proliferation of companies offering to unlock iPhones, if fact, some companies seem to have been set up recently with the sole purpose of unlocking iPhones, Apple recently threw a spanner in the works.

Apple warns that anyone who attempts to unlock their iPhone runs the risk of finding their phone irreparably damaged. They said that modified iPhones would become “permanently inoperable,” once Apple updates were installed.

Apple denies “doing anything proactively to disable iPhones that have been hacked or unlocked,” although this smacks of pre-planning to me.

It does make me wonder what Apple think they are playing at. Selling the phone off the shelf without a mobile contract and apparently setting the hackers a challenge by claiming the iPhone as unbreakable? Combined with releasing it with a single operator in both the US and European markets, it seems to me there was no other outcome.

Still, the question will have to wait until someone’s hacked phone dies before a decision can be made. Will it or won’t it? Watch this space. If your hacked iPhone turns in to a very expensive paperweight, please let me know in the comments section.