The wait is over. If you own an Apple iPhone 3G, you can now do a software unlock for free. The iPhone Dev team has released ultrasn0w, which will allow you a more or less painless unlock experience.
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On the surface, the new iPhone 3G S looks exactly like the iPhone 3G. Even under the hood, the improvements have been subtle and evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The difference between the 3G S and the 3G is much smaller compared to the difference between the 3G and the original iPhone. So while we expected that the 3G S would sell well, we didn’t really think that it would give us any surprises.
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It’s Friday, but I guess everyone’s looking forward to next weekend, when Palm releases their Palm Pre smartphone, and the week after that, when Apple holds their WorldWide Developer Conference.
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2008 was indeed a great year for Apple. They broke many of their own records, and managed to sustain good financial performance even as the rest of the market went to the gutter. Apple sold 13.7 million iPhones in 2008, beating their own 10 million estimate. The App Store, which was introduced half a year ago, now has 15,000 applications (yes, most of them are flashlights and calculators). Application download numbers are also staggering : 500 million. Even if we discount multiple downloads (new versions, etc) it’s still quite a significant figure.
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