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Verizon iPhone 4 News by My iPhone Repair Santa Rosa, Ca.

The guys at My iPhone Repair have been following the news and gathering facts about the Verizon iPhone and have found some interesting stats to share with you:

Jonathan S. Geller who reports for BGR stated earlier this week
“We also have some statistics on who’s buying Verizon iPhones to share with you: 30% of people buying Verizon iPhones were Android users, just over 25% of people buying iPhone 4 were BlackBerry users, and only 14% of people buying the Verizon iPhone were AT&T iPhone owners,” Geller reports. “The remaining percent didn’t want to say, didn’t have a smartphone, or didn’t have a phone prior to making their iPhone 4 purchases last week.”

Very interesting facts! Android users are jumping ship to the world renowned iPhone! What do you have to say about that?

Let us hear your thoughts and opinions… Have you purchased a Verizon iPhone 4?

Regards,
My iPhone Repair – Your iPhone 4 repair, iPhone 3GS repair and iPhone 3G repair experts.

Fantastic news today from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). After a lot of hard work and mountains of paperwork, jailbreaking the iPhone is now explicitly a permitted fair use under the DMCA!

The first of EFF’s three successful requests clarifies the legality of cell phone “jailbreaking” — software modifications that liberate iPhones and other handsets to run applications from sources other than those approved by the phone maker. More than a million iPhone owners are said to have “jailbroken” their handsets in order to change wireless providers or use applications obtained from sources other than Apple’s own iTunes “App Store,” and many more have expressed a desire to do so. But the threat of DMCA liability had previously endangered these customers and alternate applications stores.

In its reasoning in favor of EFF’s jailbreaking exemption, the Copyright Office rejected Apple’s claim that copyright law prevents people from installing unapproved programs on iPhones: “When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smartphone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made purely for the purpose of such interoperability are fair uses.”

The EFF also successfully renewed the existing DMCA exception for carrier unlocking. More on the ruling by the Library of Congress is here and here (and many other places, since this is huge news!). The full ruling is here, and EFF’s history with this case is here (EFF’s servers are understandably getting hammered today!).

This doesn’t mean that Apple will stop their technical attempts to thwart jailbreaking, but it does mean that our iPhone jailbreak and iPhone unlock services are now unambiguously legal under the DMCA.

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My iPhone Repair Santa Rosa, Ca – The iPhone 4 repair, iPhone 3GS repair and iPhone 3G repair experts. Home of the Nationwide Flat Rate iPhone Repair Service.