Apple has quietly allowed open source iPhone development, until now. iPhone unlockers recently issued a foolhardy boast in claiming that they had successfully unlocked the first-generation iPhone in such a way that Apple could not relock the device to AT&T. But Apple is contractually obligated to keep those customers on AT&T’s network, Tom Yager explains in iPhone hackers go too far, get shut down by Apple. “Apple’s 2.0.1 firmware update accomplishes what hackers had claimed Apple couldn’t do: It relocks an iPhone to AT&T. The original boast was predicated on the fact that through all of its prior updates, Apple had never updated the baseband (cellular radio) firmware. Well, 2.0.1 breaks this tradition, and it breaks unlocking,” Yager writes. Alas, there is an amicable way out of all this… Software Development