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Dirty, Dirty Apple

My bro got a couple of iPhones today. He told me that the headphone jack is recessed so only headphones with a very thin plug (like the apple headphones) fit into the jack. A regular set of headphones won’t fit.

Apple have also released a firmware update which bricks an unlocked iPhone. This means if you circumvented Apple’s network locking, and then update your phone, it stops working.

Apple repeatedly play these dirty, dirty tricks on customers. Yet we still buy their products. I say no more. F$#& them. I’m going to get rid of my iPod and replace it with something else. No MacBook for me.

Rockbox da iPod

While cruising Dave Jones’s blog (he’s a Fedora kernel dude) I happened upon Rockbox, an alternative firmware for a whole bunch of digital audio players (iPods and the like). Check out the Rockbox Screenshot on Wikipedia, it looks awesome. I’ll install it when I get home in a little over 10 days.

Finally my iPod will work as I want it to. It’ll play anything you dump onto it, it’ll play formats other than just MP4, I can install my own themes and do all sorts of other cool stuff. Best of all, it’s GPL code, yay for freedom!