Smartphone and Gadget News by ElectroGeek

You bought the iPhone, you paid for it, but now Apple is telling you how you have to use it, and if you don’t do things they way they say, they’re going to lock it. Turn it into a useless “brick.” Is this any way to treat a customer? Apparently, it’s the Steve Jobs way. But some iPhone users are mad as heck, and they’re not going to take it anymore.

In a Saturday post on Apple’s own iPhone discussion forums, a user who goes by the handled of “myndex” has posted the provocatively entitled message “iPhone Class Action Lawsuit.” Despite its title, it’s not notice of an actual lawsuit. Rather, myndex is seeking comments from other forum users on what they think of suing Apple over its refusal to service users who’ve unlocked their iPhones or loaded them up with “unauthorized” applications.

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