How Stupid Can iPhone Owners Be?

Apparently pretty freaking stupid.

Yesterday, Apple released an update to the iPhone firmware (1.1.1 - nice little video detailing the changes), which adds some cool features like a double-clickable home button that brings you straight to your favorites list, one tap away from making a call (this same action can also call up controls for music, so you can pause, adjust the volume, etc., without leaving the application you are using). Other new stuff includes the iTunes WiFi store (which works like BUTTER. Beautiful butter.), support for closed-captioning, louder speaker volume, some nifty little keyboard enhancements, and some security patches and bug fixes.

This stuff is all cool, sure - certainly not earth-shattering - but what I can’t comprehend is the reasoning that compelled people who had hacked their phones to install third-party apps (or even to unlock it for use on a network other than AT&T) to risk everything and attempt to install the update, even after Apple explicitly said that such updates would likely render their phones unusable. Well guess what? Apple wasn’t lying.

I guess for these (seemingly plentiful) people, the lure of being able to download DRM-laden music on the go and double-click a button was strong enough to trump the ability to use some great native third-party apps like faux-GPS, games, chat, VoIP (forthcoming, I’ve heard), etcetera, etcetera - not to mention the ability to, uh, make a freakin’ phone call with their phone.

What were these people thinking? If you hacked your phone, and had any sense whatsoever, you would have waited for the tech blogs and the development team who provided the hack to test the firmware update for you and report back. Now you’re screwed because of your overzealousness, . I, for one, am not the least bit interested in listening to you complain about something you brought on yourself.

My roommate has a hacked iPhone. His still works today. Want to know his secret?

He’s not a fucking moron.

I’m embarrassed to be associated with these idiots.

(Lots more on this subject on Techmeme)