The U.S. government has approved the new rules that allow iPhone users to unlock their devices and install the third-party software on them. Moreover, now the U.S. citizens may freely unlock their phones to work in networks of all operators.

In particular, it is reported that the Government has approved several new exceptions to the federal law that regulate the technical means which prevent users from access to copyright objects and modifying them.

In addition, it approved an exception under which all phone users have rights to unlock their device so that it could work in a network of another operator. Let me remind that AT & T is the only available network for iPhone in the U.S now but seems this restriction will be removed in the near future.

Thanks to jailbreak users have an ability to run any application they want on their iPhone and even those that are not approved by Apple. Hackers have already developed lots of custom applications that can be run on unlocked iPhone. Some of them are free, others are sold in the alternative Cydia application store.

Apple is often criticized for too strong control over the App Store. However, the company explains its actions saying it is trying to protect the iPhone customers from faulty or malicious software, as well as filtering out pornographic content.

If that’s not just a rumor I guess lot’s of iPhone users will be happy to decide which network operator to have and which apps to install on their iPhone. What are your thoughts on this?

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