{"id":3427,"date":"2010-07-02T07:54:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T22:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2010\/07\/02\/softbank-monopoly\/"},"modified":"2010-07-02T07:54:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T22:54:40","slug":"softbank-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=3427","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good morning.  7 am and i&#8217;m going to Tokyo!!!  tanoshimi!!<br \/>\n**a few weeks ago, i was at costco in hawaii buying a new ipod for my friend.  after i downloaded all my itunes into his new ipod, i suddenly wanted one.  i have the old ipod classic from 6 years ago that is pretty heavy, and the battery lasts 15 minutes if i&#8217;m lucky.  so i went back to costco and was going to spend $180 on a new ipod&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020553.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthen&#8230;.  a friend of mine was selling her old iphone much cheaper then the ipod i wanted.  i really hated the idea of an iphone but after i found out it&#8217;s the same thing as an ipod, i researched more into it.  it&#8217;s an ipod and a phone.  i can skype with it?  really?  in hawaii, AT&amp;T has a monopoly on the iphone market.  if you don&#8217;t have an iphone that wasn&#8217;t purchased from AT&amp;T, you can&#8217;t use it.  and in japan, SoftBank has their own monopoly on iphones.  if you don&#8217;t have an iphone purchased from softbank, you can&#8217;t use it&#8230;.  but wait!!!  that&#8217;s what they want you to think&#8230;.i hate monopolies so if there is a way around it, i will take that road.  i got my iphone hacked in hawaii, meaning unlocked and jailbroken so i can use it anywhere in the world and download free applications.<br \/>\nthen yesterday, i went to yokohama softbank and asked the sales person if she could change the sim cards for me.  she asked me where i got the phone from, i told her in hawaii.  her friendly smile turned into anger.  she said &#8220;hey, you can&#8217;t use that for softbank, only softbank phones work with softbank sim cards.  if you use it, it will break.&#8221;  eeh?  what?  she yelled at me and walked away.  wow!!!  i that that was sexy.  haha.. just joking.  so on the way home, i stopped by fujisawa softbank and asked the same question.  the staff there also got mad and told me that i would get arrested.  eeh?  what?  no way?  why?  she also said that there is no possible way i can use it with my prepaid sim card and if i did, i would have to buy a new iphone that costs $600 and sign a 2 year contract.  i told her &#8220;i&#8217;m sorry, i&#8217;m not rich and i don&#8217;t believe you.&#8221;<br \/>\nso i come home, turn on my computer, and hack the iphone myself.  it didn&#8217;t work at first but after researching some sites on the internet and changing some settings, my iphone was working fine&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1020554.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nnow i&#8217;m on the softbank 3G network.  i even hacked my iphone so i can send emails using my text message service.  the 2 girls at the softbanks yesterday pissed me off.  they could have been nicer and treated me better.  softbank is a monopoly and like i said before, i hate monopolies.  they screw up the economy by creating unfair competition, or should i say, no competition.  what ever price they want to sell their iphones for, they can.  that sucks for the little guys like me that can&#8217;t afford it&#8230;<br \/>\nso this is it.  if you want to hack your iphone and be able to use it anywhere in the world with any sim card from any country, i will introduce to my friend devin back in hawaii.  he feels the same way so he does it for pretty much for free.   then i will show you how to use it for softbank in japan.  is it illegal?  absolutely not!!  if it was, i wouldn&#8217;t do it.  does AT&amp;T or SoftBank approve of it?  absolutely not!!  they want to control the market and train their staff to be mean to innocent people like me.  shame on you guys&#8230;  i feel like going back to the softbanks and showing the 2 girls my new phone.  haha..  just joking.  they might like me&#8230;<br \/>\n*by the way, i turned off my softbank.ne.jp mail account 2 days ago  because i couldn&#8217;t sleep at night.  gomen.  please send email to my other account&#8230;  thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good morning. 7 am and i&#8217;m going to Tokyo!!! tanoshimi!! **a few weeks ago, i was at costco in hawaii buying a new ipod for my friend. after i downloaded all my itunes into his new ipod, i suddenly wanted one. i have the old ipod classic from 6 years ago that is pretty heavy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}