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Apple restricts Iphone sales
ENTERTAINMENT gear maker Apple has ordered that no punter may buy more than two iPhones and none can use cash.
According to Associated Press, the move is widely seen as an attempt to control the rising sales of iPhones to modders who install chips to so that they do not have to use AT&T's network.
In what must be one of the first attempts by a technology company to stop its customers actually buying a product, Apple confirmed that the unannounced policy has started last week.
Apple spinnerette Natalie Kerris said that Apple had previously limited the numbers of iPhones which could be bought to five and there was no cash restriction.
However she did not mention that the move was to stopping the lucrative modding operations.
Instead she claimed that the iPhone was so popular that limiting iPhone sales to two per punter helped Apple ensure that there were enough iPhones for people.
The credit or debit card for payment demand was to discourage "unauthorised resellers", she claimed.
However sales unmodded iPhones on eBay and the like have been few and far between, so it seems strange that Apple can be bothered curbing them.
Apple issued a software upgrade to brick more than 250,000 phones that were running mod chips. This sparked two court cases and a lot of user resentment.
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" to modders who install chips "
Nick, what have you been drinking when you wrote that ?? You had to be drunk... an iPhone is not unlocked (usually) by re-arranging its innards, you only need a few software modifications.

There WERE some early unlocking mods that messed with the hardware, but those did not involve modchips, only a few wires soldered in the right places.
In the United States, it reads on every U.S. bill:
"This note is legal tender for all debts public and private"

Is it even legal for Apple to prevent the use of cash? Credit cards aren't guaranteed to be accepted, but I believe that cash has to be.
It actually goes far beyond the cash, if you are not american you can’t buy an iphone either. Last week I tried to buy one at an apple store in Los Angeles CA and I was asked for an ID. When the salesman saw I was not from the US he refused to sell me the thing. He said the US law prohibited selling it to me. Even when I showed him I was an AT&T customer already. My job has me spending half of each month in the land of the “free” so I have a mobile line there.

Now, isn’t that some kind of discrimination or Illegal practice? To sell goods based on customer nationality or ethnic origins? The only thing I can say regarding this is that something is definitely not right with this company. This was going to be my first Apple product buy. Now I know that is not going to happen ever. And when did America ceased to be a continent anyway?
I don't know. As a product assembler/seller, Apple seems to be in a position to set the terms of sale.

If they say you can only pay in glass beads or velvet paintings of Elvis, who am I to argue?