Apple threatens Singapore retailers for selling teampered-with iPhones
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 7, 2007 at 10:11am
Singapore retailers have pulled illegally tampered iPhones off their shelves after Apple threatened to sue, according to The Straits Times.
Apple sent warning e-mails about a month ago to retailers selling “unlocked” iPhones, which are hacked so they can be used with service providers other than those that Apple has partnered, the newspaper reports. Since the iPhone’s introduction in June, hackers have been trying to “unlock” the communications device from Apple’s exclusive mobile network partners such as AT&T in the U.S.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
