Teen Trades Hacked iPhone for Car

cool!!

yes i new this guy would be doing great the first day it was reported on, so it seems he is cashing in on the Legal practice of unlocking this stranglehold at@t has on the technology? many will follow now and i dont think we have heard the last of the successes of Mr. Hotz!!!

DAMNNNNNNNNN I WISH I COULD UNLOCK DA iPHONE!! I MIGHT START WORKIN' ON IT SO I CAN HAVE A CHANCE AT DA $100,000!! U GO MR. HOTZ

my friend got an iphone and its really crappy. he hates it and really hates himself for spendin so much money and time to get one. personally, i think apple is absolutely terrible, ipods and macs are actually extrodinarily cheaply made and really really suck when you think about it. i bought a mac and got a free ipod because i was going into college, and the mac broke within 3 months and i barely used it. since then i refuse to buy any apple products. pretty much everyone else in fraternity and most people i know also stopped buying their products. i dont care how cool the iphone is, i refuse to buy it.

That kid is "dumb as a brick"!!! While he may have all kinds of intelligence that will allow him to "hack" into, and compromise, the Iphone he has NO COMMON SENSE in negotiating. Apple would have probably paid him a serious seven figure number to keep his mouth shut (as well as his friends too). Now he gets to drive away with a rust bucket and a job that he'll get fired from the first time that he doesn't kiss a boss' ass.
What an idiot!!!

This stupid kid gets a reward for being unethical? Typical American capitalist response. No wonder teenagers are amoral and have no sense of decency today. Evidently the parents are typical poor parents too. No 17-year old kid has any business owning his own car.

Am happy for this boy. GOD has blessed him with intelligence. I hope he uses it for good and not evil. GOD is the giver of all good things.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

Let's glorify a thief.

First of all, the iMac and the iPod and all Apple products are superior and not crappy - I have used Windows and switched, two years ago. I never have a problem with my iMac.
So whoever said that has some kind of ax to grind.

Second, the kid was unethical and he is not very smart, as the other people stated.

Three, I am sure Apple will fix this.
I don't see them getting knocked out of the European market by a few nerds.

it smells fishy to me..!

the whole story sounds fabricated,sure they had the corner on the market and all,but maybe this is a great way to sell more phones and make more profit...!

i mean with all the trash going on in this country today does anything less than this actually suprise you anymore ? ?

well he can unlock an iphone as he wants to, but it can only go so far. iphones only works on GSM networks and there's only 3 so far. at&t is one the next t-mobile and last altell. (iphone's a waste it has limited capabilites and it has almost none existing third party applications available.)

That's it? A Cheap NISSAN 350z, and 3 Iphones... Had he been a little wiser, he'd held out a little longer and probably gotten paid pretty well by either Apple, or another Phone Company. Enjoy that sh!tty car. Should've asked for a BMW at least!

We live in a technically crazed society, where will it end? Cell phones are very usueful utilities and have become a basic necesity. On the other side of the coin they are being severely abused,I observe daily people talking, playing or fingering on there cell phones, but , mostly while they are driving, this ofcourse is nothing new right? I drive to and from my job daily, and I see the potentially fatal downsides of this abuse. I observe at least two near misses in moving traffic every day on the way to my job, people driving carelessly because they are engaged in a cell phone conversations. This is not just a cell phone issue, I also observed some sport utility vehicles that have small viewing screens placed in every corner of the vehicle, these are for viewing movies while driving? When first introduced it was only meant for the rear seats for kids to view movies, I have now seen these screens placed over all four seats, one day at a red light, this guy had his wondow down, he and his passengers were all watching a flick, he turns over to one of the passenger and says, hey.. here comes the good part, he was watching the movie, there was a small screen right over his visor to, all four seats had a small screen, The driver of a vehicle watching movies while driving, come on, where is this madness going to end? This is going to have catastrophic consequences, I am not up on national statistics, but, I would like to see what the national average for car accidents caused by such distractions. It is plain and simple, this is a society wallowing in conspicuous consumption, this same behavior destroyed ancient Rome! I blame several things for this, I remember in the late 80's and early 90's when beepers were all the rage,they were then being displayed on one's waist as a fashion statement. Then the cell phone gained in popularity and replaced it in the mid 90's. These devices are being marketed to the public as a fashion statement. Fast forward ten years later and presto they now have cameras and a GPS device added to them. Now for sure one's where abouts are no longer a secret, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU BOOBUS AMERICA! I guess the camera comes in handy for a few things, though, I often wonder how many people have wound up in divorce court because of this little camera to? And to add to all this, they are charging you and me exuberantly high price for this invasion of privacy. I have a basic cell phone for emergencies, I keep it on me while I drive, if needed I will pull over and take a call if need be, and I will put it safely on speaker phone while I drive (hands free). So to the jackasse's on the road who just want to look cool or important while taking a call in moving traffic, "Hey butt hole, cell phones are like assholes, every one has one", your not impressing any one of us with good sense! I also do not want to know the content of someone's conversation either, and to those who want to verbally impress us with there business conversations or who they had sex with the other night, please understand I personally could give a fleas ass, it only shows me that you are in desperate need of attention. I do not know where this will all lead to, it cna anly get worse.

Mark C.

mannnnn i would have held out for more money,he got on the 1st bus coming,and it didnt go far,they played he's ass very well,young and dumb,where was his parnets they didnt know he was getting f??ck

Since when did we start praising "cheating". Thats basically what this kid did when he "unlocked" the iphone. AT&T had exclusive rights to the iphone via written contract that Im sure took several lawyers and hours of negotiating time. Then this CHILD hacks into the system to change that and we all clap our hands? No way. Its morally and ethically wrong. I hope Apple and/or AT&T brings a hefty law suit against this kid to teach him a thing or two, or next thing we know, he'll be hacking his way into the local bank, state department, NSA, or worse.

Wow you guys are tools, why get mad at him cuz he made some loot and alot of loot at that 3 iphones and a 350z ? i just smell jealousy, you people are ridiculous i mean maybe apple would of gave him more money or maybe they would have just made it 'disappear' and to Jason , did your mommy and daddy not let you drive till you turned 20 or something this is America grow the eff up and get use to it my kid brother drives now and hes 16 and theres nothing wrong with it. These responses disgust me in the worst way!

All he took was a 350z and 3 8g Iphones? What a waste of time and energy. Nothing will happen though. Either Apple or AT&T Execs and Attorneys will be all over it. More Apple than AT&T. I'm sure they wouldn't want AT&T to be upset with Apple and pull back on their multi-billion dollar, 5 year exclusivity contract that Apple must take all measures to protect. Anyways, where will they take the iphone? Shi-T-Mobile? Because Verizon/Sprint are both CDMA so it won't work with them at all. Personally, i would have contacted Vodafone in Europe for a better deal. That's probably what this carrier will end up doing anyhow. AT&T can care less of the contract being breached across seas. As long as its all theirs in the US, they can do whatever they want.... Proud AT&T Customer and IPhone owner myself.

first off, a 350z isnt cheap and neither is three iphones id say he made a good deal to get a $30,0000 car and $1800 dollars worth of Iphones for a phone that cost his friend only $599 in the first place that right there is making a dollar out of 15 cents. if more people did this and followed his lead we could all be rich in a matter of time.

J you're correct he could have held out a little longer but in that time Apple could have produced inherent changes and corrected the problem, and if anyone thins a Nissan 350Z is a cheap car, you really don't know cars, maybe one day you will grow up and become wiser yourself. I have both a 350Z and the 4 door BMW sedan and believe me the Nissan blows away the BMW,esp spped and ride.

Yea, but $30k worth of a car, and $16k worth of phones mean nothing when he could have much more. They're right. Apple would have paid more to keep him shut, funded his future schooling, promised him a position just like Ryan Philipe in the movie "Antitrust". This kid was just what he is... a kid. I hope he was smart enough to sell all of his rights to the code in the form of a contract though, because AT&T and Apple will both have a field day going after him if he didnt. If you're going to be unethical, do it wisely. That's my motto!