Rotten to the Core

I thought a quick post was necessary, considering there have not been many new ideas being presented on. And I'm kinda pissed off.

Anyways, so today I fly to Vancouver, and after I land my cousin and I head to the nearest Rogers store so he can pick up his brand new 3G iPhone. Awesome right?
Well we stood in line for an hour and a half and endured the nagging, irritating complaints that were projected from this rude womens mouth right behind us. Its a good thing that there were other people in the store because she deserved a punch right in the throat.

So we go back to my cousins place and are messing around with his new 3G iPhone, and my Old-School 8GB iPhone. A couple of hours pass and still enjoying the company of our oh-so-elegant phones. Around 630 hits, and im in the middle of viewing a web page in Safari, when all of a sudden my phone appears to restart, but instead of going to the usual screen, I am presented with an image of a USB cable plugging into the iTunes logo.

Oh shit. What the hell is this?
So I resort to the only precautionary measure I know - Restart the phone!

Well that didnt work, even though I retried a good 5 times, I was still presented with the same image. So we plug it into the computer and supposedly I now have to 'Restore' my phone to default factory settings WHICH MEANS: I lose all numbers, photos, music, games etc. etc.

And then I learn that Apple has been doing this for awhile: remotely updating unlocked/jailbroken iPhones so that it 'reBricks' your phone enabling it useless.

So now im out of a phone, until I get back in a week in which my friend and I can attempt to salvage my beloved communication device.

So all in all, Fuck You Apple for screwing with me and my iPhone.

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Update: After some more research and discussion with friend of mine who is also an iPhone user, and also a friend of my cousin who is a phone-software engineer, it seems that it might either be

a) Apples doing - by remotely updating iPhones to ward off the thousands of unlocked iPhones (but wouldnt that be in violation to their User End Agreement? I dunno.)

b) My own fault for keeping my iPhone at such an outdated, unstable Firmware (1.1.1.)

It really doesnt matter at this point, because I still have a locked phone, but I'm confident that we'll be able to get it back working shortly.