Despite big, stern, formal-looking notices at Genius bars proclaiming that unlocked phones are out of warrantee and will make perfectly good building materials, Geniuses are, reports claim, quietly refreshing bricked iPhones to their pristine state.
TUAW says that it's hearing plenty have had success with their sob stories — perhaps because some phones that have never been messed with are also being bricked by the 1.1.1 update.
For those who are having no luck, we're sympathetic, but not exactly enthusiastic about it. Apple and the iPhone, just like Sony and the PSP, has very much its own ideas about what is good for you, iPhone-wise, and everyone knew it from the beginning. Get with the program, or learn to accept the price of heresy: a long and unwinnable war with a corporation that will only open up APIs under terms it planned out before it even started the show. And in the meantime, be really, really nice to the Geniuses.
UPDATE: 9to5mac has figured out the precise lie you need to use at the Genius bar to prevent them from finding out if your bricked iPhone was SIM-unlocked or the victim of a bug.
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