AppleInsider StaffA German court on Tuesday overturned a temporary injunction against T-Mobile which had order the wireless carrier to offer Apple's iPhone to customers unlocked and without a service contract. Meanwhile, Adobe has released a new version of Flash 9 that includes H.264 high-definition video support.
T-Mobile can ">go back to selling
The Hamburg District Court said the Deutsche Telekom mobile unit can force customers who purchase the touch-screen handset to take out a T-Mobile contract and can continue to offer the device with a locked SIM card.
"We are pleased with the outcome," T-Mobile spokesman Rene Bresken said.
The company will reportedly stop selling an unlocked version but said that after customers' contracts expire, it will unlock their iPhone at no charge.
Adobe Flash 9 with H.264 support
Meanwhile, Adobe on Tuesday announced the immediate availability of Flash Player 9 Update 3 software, previously code named Moviestar.
The San Jose, Calif.-based software maker said Flash Player 9 now includes H.264 standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio capabilities.
The latest update also features hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced, full-screen video playback for high-resolution viewing across major operating systems and browsers.
Adobe said it will extend support for H.264 flash to applications developed for Adobe AIR software, a cross-operating system application runtime that enables developers to use their existing skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.
Expected to be available in early 2008, Adobe Media Player, the first application from Adobe built on Adobe AIR, will leverage both H.264 video and HE-AAC audio support.
Adobe Flash Player 9 is immediately available as a free download for Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms from this website.
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Good. This has nothing to do with market freedom as there are multiple service providers and numerous choices for devices. This is about a single device manufacturer, and consumers wanting to bully it into selling its device against its wishes. Consumers still have the choice not to buy, which will cause Apple to react by altering its prices or future service agreements. That is how markets work.
Good. This has nothing to do with market freedom as there are multiple service providers and numerous choices for devices. This is about a single device manufacturer, and consumers wanting to bully it into selling its device against its wishes. Consumers still have the choice not to buy, which will cause Apple to react by altering its prices or future service agreements. That is how markets work.
It's amazing how people don't understand that.
I guess this should silence the critic of "uhh the big bad government interfering in our daily lives" and who claimed that for some strange reason Germany was on the brink of communism and wanting to send in the Marines...
I guess Germany is still a democracy with an independent justice system
Excellent news on the H264. I seriously hope that more and more people move to H264 and get rid of WMV as a popular format. Shifting youtube to it should be a huge help as all people will have to do is get the new version of flash.
I wonder if a new version of flash means anything for the iPhone/Touch Safari browser. I know they have indicated its coming, and I wonder if this means its nearly time.
I hope so, it would only add to the continued awesomeness of the devices.