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Loading ...The Irony That is Steve Jobs
29 Sep
Unless you live under a rock within the Brazilian Rain Forest you already know that the 1.1.1 iPhone update released this Thursday not only killed third-party applications it prevented them from being used thereafter. It also will kill unlocked iPhones, rendering them incapable of making phone calls.
But what you might not know is the man most likely responsible for this heavy-handedness, Steve Jobs, once sold illegal “blue boxes” which were built by his friend and future Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak. These boxes tricked the phone system into allowing free phone calls. The (only) phone company back then was AT&T.
Is that ironic or what?
“In 1971 Steve ‘Woz’ Wozniak designed a device called the ‘Blue Box’. It allowed — of course illegal — phone calls free of charge by faking the signals used by the phone companies. His friend Steve Jobs instantly realized that there must be a huge market for something that useful. He bought the parts for $40, Woz built the boxes and Jobs sold them to his fellow students at the University of California in Berkeley for $150.”
http://www.markusehrenfried.de/mac/applehistory.html
More about this available over at 9to5mac.com!
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