With the introduction of the iPhone4, the people at Apple are more than determined to make sure that your personal privacy and data are protected inside as well as out from intruders. With the growing trend of cell-phones being used for texting, phone calls and other data transmission, it is severely important that users try to protect their personal information from circulating at all costs.
That's why the people at Apple Inc. have installed new 'screws' that are tamper proof and prevents people from opening the device, thus securing information. Kyle Wiens, the chief executive of iFixit said that the purpose of the new screws was to keep people out of the iPhone and to keep them from replacing the battery with a dead or dying one. He thinks that this tactic would do more harm than good though as it's like shutting out the original owners of the iPhone from doing what they need to do.
So the thing of it is, what's a person suppose to do if they need a battery replaced and can't gain access to the back cover of their phone? The people at iFixit said that if the phone is still under warranty, they technician will replace it for them, but other than that, there would be a charge fee of $79 if it isn't. Though the main theme is to prevent unauthorized modifications of the iPhone, does it restrict the owners from using the phone how they see fit with these new Pentalobe screws that are being installed into them?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110121/wr_nm/us_apple_screws
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