There is around a lot of buzz surrounding the Apple iPhone, or its sister products, the iPod, or the iPod touch. It seems that when the hype starts to die down around one of these gadgets, there's always something new to talk about one of the others, whether it's more memory, a new service, or a new hack. It doesn't matter where it comes from, there is always a lot of focus and attention about these high-tech mobile phones, personal devices, and media players.

Apple is already dominating the market share, but you can imagine how many more users there would be if there wasn't so much drive for propriety and network dominance. But despite the official limitations and requirements for using the iPhone on the AT&T network, there are still ways for non-network users to circumvent the and allow the device to operate on other wireless telecom carriers, using online technologies to unlock your iPhone.

While Apple's official position on iPhone unlock hacks and workarounds is that they don't support the programming that allows the iPhones to work on other networks, they are still hoping to meet targets for iPhone unit sales, even if that means "turning a blind eye" when it comes to iPhone hacks and other ways that allow the iPhone to be enabled in other markets.

In the meantime, while this unlocking technology still remains a little grey, businesses (like iPhone Sim Unlock) are taking advantage of the opportunity to remove the restrictions and provide solutions that unlock iPhones and open up the Simcards allowing the iPhones to work on other networks such as T-Mobile, O2, Orange, Telefonica, Vodafone, TIM, Telstra, and others.

Whether you should or shouldn't purchase an iPhone to use on another network isn't an ethical question I would be ready to answer. But either way, Apple is making a sale, and every unit sold, whether to be used on the AT&T network, or hacked to work on another, adds to their dominance in this highly competitive industry.