iPhones

Steeped in iPhones lately. I’ve spent the whole week, it seems with an iPhone on my desk. So many people are bringing them over here, and they all want to .. get this .. use them as phones.

I recently bought the Apple training material. It wasn’t cheap and it’s not easy, even with years of hands-on Apple experience. I am hoping to get certified by Apple to do in-warranty repairs, then I can train my techs and get them rolling with Apple repairs. That will hopefully lead to us opening an Apple certified repair center.

I say all this because for the first time ever I actually feel a twinge of guilt when I jailbreak and unlock an iPhone. That’s a first for me. I guess it has to do with the fact that on one hand I’m looking to legitimize our work by getting all our techs certified, while on the other hand I’m blatantly violating the warranties of some of our customer’s gear.

I’m not letting it bother me too much though because without a jailbreak and unlock, foreign iPhones are useless here, and those bought in country are ridiculously expensive and tethered to mind-blowingly expensive plans.

Plus, I realize how much an iDevice means in terms of productivity. I’m a terribly infrequent blogger, but thanks to my SANS-donated iPad it’s much easier to find the time wherever I am.

So I’m stopping the perpetual iPod-downgrade of all these iPhones and boosting the productivity of the organizations whose staff have come to rely on them.

That bit of masterful justification brought to you by the letter “A”.