Apple says unlocking software can damage iPhone

And they say all the FUD comes from the Microsoft side of the fence: Apple Inc said on Monday that programs available on the Internetthat allow the iPhone to be used with other service providers besidesAT&T's Cingular network can irreparably damage the device. Apple,which also makes the Mac computer, the iPod digital music player andruns the iTunes online store, said once an Apple-supplied softwareupdate is installed on the iPhone, it "will likely result in themodified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable." Since theiPhone's introduction at the end of June, Apple has said it expects tosell 1 million units by the end of this month. In the first two days itwas on sale, Apple said it sold 270,000 of the gadgets.   "We are not doing anything proactively to disable iPhones thathave been hacked or unlocked," Phil Schiller, Apple's head of worldwideproduct marking told Reuters. There is one bit of good news in all this: Apple revealed as part of this threat that the iPhone version of the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store would go live this week.