There are thousands and thousands or if I’m not wrong hundreds of thousands of users waiting for their iPhone to get unlocked. So what do you do when you are fed up of waiting for your iPhone to get unlocked? Well normally a person would wait until someone comes up with a solution but not this guy. He sent an email to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple!
Steve Jobs in the past had been known to reply to some emails, and it seems Tim Cook wants to keep that tradition going. Although the person who emailed Tim Cook did not get a personal rely but he did get reply nonetheless from AT&T Partnership Operations mentioning that, they received an email from Tim Cook requesting to unlock an iPhone.
Here is the full email via 9to5mac:
Hi Tim,
My family is immersed in the Apple brand. All 4 of my children (aged 2 tohave been using iPod touches, iPhones, iPads, and iMacs since they were a year old. Our television is a 27” iMac using eyeTV. My kids talk to their grandmother every second day via video Skype on the iMac. All of our computers are Macs (we have 4 in the house). Apple has touched every aspect of our lives and made it richer!
My company recently moved me to Canada for a work assignment for a few years. My wife’s iPhone 3GS had finished its contract with AT&T so I bought her an iPhone 4 the day we moved to Canada. I took her iPhone 3GS and I contacted AT&T to see if I could have it unlocked so that I could use the phone with a Canadian carrier with a “pay as you go” plan for casual use (I’m forced to use a Blackberry for work, but I hate it so I’d like to use the iPhone for phone calls). This is where my problems began.
Basically AT&T told me that they couldn’t unlock it, only Apple could. I called Apple (but was routed through Apple Canada) and they told me “ask to talk to a supervisor at AT&T because the customer service rep won’t know the process, but AT&T definitely can unlock it”. So I called them back and the supervisor was adamant that they couldn’t help me. “Just jailbreak your phone” was their advice.
I didn’t want to jailbreak my phone, I like Apple’s curated experience and I don’t want to stray from that. However after several more calls to both AT&T and Apple, I made no progress. So I’m turning to you for a final plea.
I love Apple and will continue to buy your products regardless of what happens with this situation. However, I did pay $600 some odd dollars for this device (even though I bought it on contact and they say its subsidized, I’m basically paying for the device in my monthly payments) and I’d like to be able to use it.
My thanks to the Apple team, keep innovating!
After a bit of hassle, AT&T made a special exemption to unlock the person’s iPhone. He was asked to tether his iPhone via connecting to iTunes after confirming his IMEI for his iPhone.
He finally got it unlocked.
Sometime later Tim Cook’s assistant called to make sure his iPhone was unlocked.
Mid day my wife sent me an e-mail at work saying “Um, Tim Cook’s special assistant just called and she wants to know if AT&T has unlocked your phone yet??? Why does Tim Cook care about your phone?”
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