ajones, see that's the thing...It doesn't matter what you say, the Guru is actually quite intelligent and very good at mincing words. Obviously the last thing he would want is an investigation, although he is painting a very large target on himself. It's likely he isn't directly associated with this particular scheme, although he may know someone that is or perhaps has vested interest in Sprint. Of course this will all in turn be vehemently denied. Par for course.
To answer Guru's last post, all I need to do is reference my second post:
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Originally Posted by Raging Idiot
Yes, and as long as Sprint isn't losing money from it, and customers aren't complaining (because what would we say, and how many even think about this), then there will be no cross referencing of documents and much more unlikely any prosecutions.
So we're looking at about a $200 profit per switch with nearly zero chance of getting caught, and zero chance of prosecution.
The standard retail Sprint rep could do this about 8 times a month and effectively double their salary.
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And so we've come full circle, yet again...to what end?
In another thread from Guru-
"There always seem to be a few people that feel the need to screw things up for everyone else by trying to turn a dime off of someone else's labor."
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=13615
...and yet in the current thread we have:
"You seem to have the common misconception that just because a person didn't benefit maximally (getting a 6800 for a 6700 in this case) that somehow they were injurred - if they're no worse than they started, they weren't injurred. The carrier, on the other hand, _was_ injurred - they shipped a 6800 and it didn't get to the intended recipient."
It makes sense that Sprint would want us to keep our old phones as long as possible, because they don't have to absorb new phone costs in the monthly payments. Those "free phones" they give away (and deep discounts) are really not "Free" as we all are already aware.
What better way to keep people on the old phones than the scheme already discussed, AS WELL AS facilitate these ROM upgrades. In order for this to be a difficult target of prosecution these ROM upgrades must be given away and not sold.
I don't claim omniscience, and I greatly doubt that the vast majority involved with making these ROMs even think about it being facilitated by the phone company. As one of the thousands of beneficiaries of this it is impossible to say this is a bad thing.
I do know that the phone industry is extremely competitive, and they employ some very smart people to do their statistical analysis on probabilities as well as have many stockholders doing whatever they feel will get more bang for their buck.