really want to depend on a hacker for support? The longer you use their software the more likely you'll have to have them forever to operate your iPhone. Then you'll be griping at Apple when they do release REAL support for iPhone apps that then won't run because of your impatience. Idiots.

going to cost you a LOT more money to use on the Internet - * A hacked iPhone (carrier change) is going to cost you a LOT more money to use on another carrier, if you can even get it to work (I have yet to see a carrier-switched iPhone in the wild) - * A hacked iPhone is not going to survive a single update from an iTunes sync without either "unhacking" (restoring the base image) or turning the phone (cell carrier decoupling) into a useless but attractive lump of technology. - * At this point, developing applications using the iPhone's native Cocoa is not a viable development platform. You have no audience. Your customers would need to be well above the power-user level in order to simply install your software. Your customers would violate their warranty and suffer all three of the previously listed consequences to hacking the phone just to run your software. It just ain't gonna happen.

The fact that this hole has not been patched already is surprising. When the record labels find out that people are again using the music they paid for as ringtones without giving them more, they will pressure Apple to fix it lickity-split.

iPhone update 1.1.2 will be out in the next few days.

If you don't want to do anything to your iPhone, then don't.

For the people who do not live in the US (currently the only country which iPhone is released), the only way they can get iPhone is to get it quote hacked. Apple gets paid either way, and it does not affect unhacked iPhones, so why do you care what someone else do to their device? Do you call up the condo association if the neighbor's walls are 1% different than an "approved" paint?

But I thought it caused permanent damage!!! Oh wait, Apple lied- its software and it can't cause damage.