Jim,<br><br>I quite agree that the "If you pry we fry" approach IS just plain evil. I vote (with no evidence for backup) for the concept that the milestone referred to is the "pre-release" version of the Droid. I can see some justification for a manufacturer wanting a "kill switch" on a pre-production product to keep the competition among others from figuring out all the capabilities of the phone before it hits the market. The recent i-phone incident in the bar comes to mind. Something like that I could live with, but killing a rather expensive toy that I bought and paid for specifically BECAUSE it is supposed to be open and free when I try to enhance it, would not sit well.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Robert Reese <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@sixit.com" target="_blank">ale@sixit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello Jim,<br>
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Thursday, July 15, 2010, 12:18:21 PM, you wrote:<br>
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> <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/15/1317205/Droid-X-Self-Destructs-If-You-Try-To-Mod" target="_blank">http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/15/1317205/Droid-X-Self-Destructs-If-You-Try-To-Mod</a><br>
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</div>Soooo, what the phone companies are saying is, "If you pry, we will fry." Nice.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>so if the phone is bricked does that mean my contract is over?<br> <br></div><div class="im">
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