I was briefly excited earlier this week when the Apple store told me I should call up the phone service–as long as I was out of contract, they would then arrange with apple to unlock my phone. I had heard rumors of this but couldn’t believe it was real.
I was excited, but also felt like I’d been duped for 6 months here using a silly burner phone.
But it turns out I am not so un-savvy. I called AT&T in the US (using GetHuman.com <3), and they restored reality for me. No, they absolutely do not do that, and they have no plans to do that (implies that I have to either jailbreak illegally or accept that my iPhone is a paperweight after the contract, nice).
So at least I feel like I understand the world I live in, but sadly, no breakthrough on the iPhone tech front.