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I just used ZiPhone [warning: background music] to upgrade to iPhone firmware 1.1.4.

Before, the level of illicit steps one had to go through to convince the iPhone to break free of its shackles approached infinity and the time in which to perform them — including radically insane up-and-downgrades — took at best a night of intrepid and driven arduous determination and stupidity. If the end product (an unlocked iPhone) wasn’t something to strive after, this would have been the very definition of wasting one’s time with a million different tools, approaches, guides and command line incantations — you know, the kind of thing even software installation under Desktop Linux moved past several years ago.

Now it’s a matter of doing a Restore and clicking the one “Unlock, jailbreak, activate” button in ZiPhone. Restoring the backup iTunes created didn’t work — but never mind; I did a manual backup too and I can always spend one hour restoring everything manually and still come out ahead in the time plan.

Someone finally thought of the big picture, helped iPhone upgrading for the majority of the customers (the ones that don’t want to use the carrier Apple selects) escape the zone of ridicule and saved hundreds of thousands of weekends the world over. Well done, Zibri. I donated, and I salute you.