Teens Banned from Apple Stores “for life” for Jailbreaking iPhone
by Jody Mitoma on May 31, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Apple store employees have caught four teenagers jailbreaking iPhones – downloading third-party applications onto a demo iPhone. This caused them to be banned from the Apple store “for life”.
Daniel Fukuba (left), 17 years old, and Eric Vicenti (right), 16 years old, met up with two friends; Noah Rogers and Anjay Patel, at a local Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto, where they were caught jailbreaking (installing third party applications and games) onto one of the stores demo iPhone according to Palo Alto Daily News.
Read the rest of the story according to Blog.WIRED.com below:
While the teens waited for Patel to show up at the store, an employee asked them what they were doing. They said they were playing with the phone. Then the store manager (whom they knew as a friend’s fourth-grade Hebrew teacher) asked them if they needed help, to which they responded that they were doing fine. After Patel showed up, the group hung out for “less than five minutes” before they left. But they didn’t get far — they were chased down the block by the manager who told them to “Stop right there.” The Apple store manager called the cops, Daniel’s and Eric’s parents, and the four teens were detained for 2.5 hours.
“After being lectured by the manager on the dangers of ‘hacking’ into the phones, the teens were photographed and told their pictures were being sent to all Apple stores ’so they’d be on the lookout for us,’” Rogers told the Palo Alto Daily News. Rogers, who worked in the Apple store over the holidays, yawned off the lecture.
“All you have to do is plug it in a laptop to restore it to normal,” he said.
Ironically, the bust comes just a couple months after Apple announced it would open the iPhone platform to third-party developers.
“We’re excited about creating a vibrant third-party developer community with potentially thousands of native applications for iPhone and iPod touch,” said Steve Jobs, back in March.
(Source: WIRED)
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