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Yet more reason to avoid iPhone, just confirming how locked down it is and how dependent its users have to be on Apple.

Gizmodo blogger Brian Lan says: "You heard that the new firmware bricks unlocked iphones? Get this: Apple just confirmed to me that running any third-party app at all voids the warranty, and you won't be covered if your iPhone bricks for whatever reason. The reasoning is that Apple cannot distinguish between other third party apps and those that have been confirmed to combine with the new firmware to cause iPhone Brick-itus." -- Read more

"In it's oh-so objective report Gizmodo writes: "It was bound to happen. It seems that a guy called Trujillo has been the first to file a class-action suit against Apple and AT&T because of the iPhone. The reason? You guessed it—it's the battery." calling you to read "all about this dumbtastically stupid lawsuit, including the entire complaint text, after the jump."

"The reason why this Gizmodo blogger apparently believes that this is a stupid and baseless lawsuit worth some offensive name calling is what pretty much amounts to his opinion on how relevant or truthful one of Trujillo's complaints are.

FSF has just released an article which points to the two significant launches that are happening today, June 29, the launch of Apple's iPhone and FSF's GPLv3 (which will happen, along with a live stream of Richard Stallman's announcement at noon EDT, 4 PM UTC or 6 PM CEST) asserting that Mac OS X running within iPhone might contain GPLed code. If iPhone contains DRM which disallows modifications of software that is running on it and yet contains code which may be under the GPLv3, Apple may be in violation.