No, dinodino, I said that Apple said they are not selling "unlocked" iPhone 6 unconnected to carriers. Your friend is violating his contract. That is between him and T-Mobile and his conscience. You still cannot walk into an Apple retail store, or even the online Apple Store and purchase an "unlocked" Apple iPhone 6. They WILL refuse to sell it to you. You have to resort to subterfuge to buy one, lying about your intended use. A straw purchase with the intent to violate your legal contract.
I got the impression, from the way you wrote your replies, that your friend had left the country some time ago. If so, your claim he bought iPhone 6 and 6plus to take back to Jeddah are very hard to swallow. Unless he stood in line for hours, it's unlikely he got both at the OC store the way you described which was "the first week they came out," implying a week other than the current week in which you made that claim, when he was already in Jeddah. The problem with that is that the "current week" WAS the week in which iPhone 6 was released and had been only available for very few days and we had been having this discussion for several days already. You implied that the iPhones he bought were bought prior to the week we were having the discussion, and therefore could NOT have been iPhone 6es. This smacks of throwing things against the wall to make people believe your story.
The time frame doesn't fit. If they were newly purchased, you would have said, "he just bought them Friday or Saturday, before he left for Jeddah." As Judge Judy says "If it doesn't make sense, it's a lie." I'm sorry, dinodino, your statement didn't make sense, because you didn't even know when the iPhone 6 was released. . . and this late claim to attempt to validate your friend bought iPhone 6es doesn't make sense either. The fact that they don't need to be hardware unlocked from T-Mobile as a carrier was not revealed until the middle of last week when some bloggers who tried doing it started talking about it.. I already told you when the iPhone 6 was released and you could have said then "He just bought them." You did not. Instead you said "I need to ask him." You, my friend are blowing smoke and saying look in the mirror over there, not at what I'm doing. Sorry, it doesn't fly.
The point still stands that Apple will not intentionally sell an unlocked iPhone 6 as you claimed.
They were contract-free phones, and yes, they are working just fine in JED. You can believe what you want.