More FUD. The 1.1 update for the iPhone bricked the jailbroken iPhones because they were jailbroken by using a security vulnerability. Apple merely fixed the vulnerability. In fact, Apple redesigned the OSX architecture on the iPhone, moving the users to a "standard user" instead of administrator level access. That was a security move, not a move to deliberately "brick" the iPhone's of people who had hacked them.
Apple even explicitly WARNED updaters that if they had hacked the phone and/or installed unauthorized software, they were at risk of the update failing and their iPhones failing to work.
Apple was not responsible for warranty repair on iPhone's that had been used in violation of the EULA... although almost all of the "bricked" iPhones were working within two weeks as the crackers found another method to access them. Now, in a couple of weeks or so, third party software will be available with a legitimate method for installation.
The phone would not need hacking if it could be used on other networks. Apple created the problem, people wanted to stick it to them, and they got their phones bricked for the trouble.
That's OK with me, but what I was amazed by is the fact that many of the bricked people had enough bricks in their head to buy another one.
After the new one is displayed at the show coming up, they will all rush out and get that one too.(Gotta have the new G-phone!)
I think it's insanity, but what do I know. I've had the same Motorola for 5 years or so.