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Good headphones can last a decade; but their cables rarely do.

They are headphones, not a lasso. You must be using them wrong. May I suggest you buy my headphones? Firstly the headphone cable is replaceable, and secondly you'll quickly realise you can't use them as a lasso when they go flying away while you mistreat your shit.

Mind you as an Apple fan you probably don't know what strain relief is since the fruity nutcases decided they didn't look good leading to http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-...

There are new features in iOS 11.3: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2018/01/ios-11-3-features.html - heck people have complained about some of the new features here on Slashdot already https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...

Enough so that the FBI withdrew their request.

It was withdrawn because the device was cracked by an Israeli firm.

Not before they fought in court, with Tim Cook writing public letter about protecting the people's right, with some of the public interviewee realizing FBI on the wrong, with a number of technology giants supporting Apple including MS and FBI finding themselves in a position for a possible bad precedent against them.

Only then they "just a day before the hearing" went and signed $15,278.02 contract with Cellebrite (Israeli company).

There is zero reason they should be "postponing the hearing" and also signing a contract on a day before postponing, unless they've ran out of time on something bad against them. Apple really did "enough" to make the FBI withdrew their request.

You can turn off that stupid doodle shit, I hated it too. http://www.iphonehacks.com/201...

Yeah, but how do you turn off the stupid "commenting" on a text by holding down on it too long?

Wait, what? I didn't know this. I'm astonished and excited.

But it looks like the sideloading is via pretending to be the developer of said application. How do I distribute a side-loaded application? Can I still use the app-store for IAPs? Any more details on how to actually deliver sideloaded apps as a developer?

Well, some people just publish the Source on Github.

Here's a tutorial from the User's point-of-view on using XCode to install f.lux for iOS.

Other people publish the Cydia Impactor (.ipa) Packages on their websites. Here's a tutorial for using Impactor to install f.lux from their .ipa file.

I don't think this affects your ability as an iOS Developer to submit offerings for the iOS App Store. But I would check with some other iOS Devs. to be certain.

How to Jailbreak iPhone or iPad on iOS 9.3.3 Without a Computer

Seriously, though, the "it's a major security risk" seems a rather pointless qualifier. If Apple wants to maintain its safe walled garden, local privilege escalation is a big problem. It's the same reason Nintendo has had* to repeatedly pull games out of its eshop.

*Obviously didn't really "[have]" to but it definitely conflicts with their motive to maintain control to consistently get their cut of sales.

Apple's Q4 has been the weakest or second weakest quarter since 2012. New iPhones are released only during the final month of the quarter and are supply-constrained, limiting the revenue that can be pulled from there. Cook said that Q1 2017 (Oct-Dec 2016 for reasons only known to accountants) will see a return to profitability, and Apple has consistently been spot-on with their numbers. Q1 has consistently been Apple's biggest since the iPhone eclipsed the Mac in revenue.

Now, if Apple undershoots its targets for Q1 (entirely possible), then I'd start watching for sweating Apple execs.

Um, I don't think there will be any sweating at 1 Infinite Loop.

I hate to say it, but they already have a "Made for iPhone" program where there are special chips the iDevices are looking for, and if they don't find it they will complain the accessory may not work properly:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/201...

Last I heard it never went past fear mongering but was still annoying. I can't remember if there was a way to disable it or not but I'm sure if so it was on by default.

That's nothing new. It's been around for a long time. I had a 2nd gen ipod touch. Apple wanted like $50 for their composite A/V cable (with the red/white/yellow connectors) so you could play video back on an old analog TV. Instead I went onto ebay and bought one for $3.50 that worked perfectly. Or at least it did work perfectly, until IOS 4.0 (I think that was the version, but maybe it was 3.0) was released. Then whenever the cable was connected, it would pop up that error message. You could still use the audio out on the cable, but the video portion was useless (I don't remember if it completely stopped working or was just useless because it showed the error message on your TV). The only way to get video out was to buy a new ridiculously priced official cable that had their DRM chip inside.

I hate to say it, but they already have a "Made for iPhone" program where there are special chips the iDevices are looking for, and if they don't find it they will complain the accessory may not work properly:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/201...

Last I heard it never went past fear mongering but was still annoying. I can't remember if there was a way to disable it or not but I'm sure if so it was on by default.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/201...

As long as Apple still signs the older iOS version, you should be able to downgrade (even via iTunes). See e.g. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/06/downgrade-ios-7-to-ios-6.html . You could call it a hack, but since it's standard iTunes functionality I don't think it really is.

You must be living on a different planet. As others have stated:

Your planet seems to be the one where facts can be created just by stating them. On my planet, facts need to be supported by evidence.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/09/cannot-downgrade-ios-7-ios-6-1-3-ios-6-1-4.html

1) You decide whether to upgrade to iOS 7 or not.

False. Apple will force me to use iOS 7 whenever I reformat and restore my phone which I end up doing atleast once a year because the phone slows down after about a year of use.

2) Others have managed to restore back to iOS 6.

If you have a device that has the A5 or newer chip, you cannot downgrade the OS because Apple has fixed bugs people used earlier.

Also *IF* and that's a big if some people (on some devices) have managed to restore the OS back go 6, they are using techniques that use flaws in Apples update process. They have to know in advance the steps that need to be taken. e.g. (If you happen to be the one of people that know how to.. and managed to cache their SHSH blobs in advance - note that this technique used to work but does not anymore). Apple *does not* allow you to downgrade.

So, how's the weather on your planet?

You can ask the voices in your head...

You cant use SHSH blobs now. Apple has introduced the APTicket mechanism which makes them useless.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/09/cannot-downgrade-ios-7-ios-6-1-3-ios-6-1-4.html

Apple are unequivocally NOT "blocking" the use of unauthorized third-party Lightning cables. The summary/title is absolutely 100% bullshit. The article says, and I quote: "Apple will probably shut the door on the usage of [unauthorized third-party Lightning cables] in a future update."

It is you that has the reading/comprehension problem. From the first paragraph of the article:

In a move possibly triggered by stories of deadly electrical shocks coming from Apple iPhone and Apple iPad units, the Cupertino based tech giant is blocking the use of unauthorized third party Lightning cables with iOS 7.

See that: "is blocking"?. Not probably.
Where you quote "probably", you have taken that sentence out of context. Let's put it back in:

There is word going around that some unauthorized cables with cracked chips have been working with iOS 7. Apple will probably shut the door on the usage of the latter in a future update.

"the latter" clearly refers to "some unauthorized cables with cracked chips".

You take the warning "may not work reliably" and extrapolate this to mean: "will probably work". According to this page you cannot actually dismiss the dialog and get the cable to work. Users actually report that cables that used to work with beta releases of IOS7 do not work with the the production release of IOS7. Of course it is possible that with millions of cables in use, some just happened to fail between IOS7 beta and IOS production releases, nevertheless, your claims are not supported by any reports.

So, get off the Apple fanboi train and learn to read.

would PairLock be a possible solution, would that work?

popphoto doesn't know what it's talking about.

Ahem...
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/12/apple-details-iphone-5s-new-camera-8mp-same-as-iphone-4s-but/ [engadget.com]
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/09/iphone-5-vs-iphone-4s-camera-image-quality-comparison.html [iphonehacks.com]
http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/ [apple.com]

Every fucking link I find has Apple saying "Same camera sensor, just thinner."

Are you insinuating that Apple is lying about what is inside its phone?

Ahem...
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/12/apple-details-iphone-5s-new-camera-8mp-same-as-iphone-4s-but/
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/09/iphone-5-vs-iphone-4s-camera-image-quality-comparison.html
http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/

Every fucking link I find has Apple saying "Same camera sensor, just thinner."

Try again.

The 3G launched June 9, 2008. If you sold it to your friend 3.5 years later, by my admittedly sketchy math that's december of last year.

I didn't do much research, but its easy to find that the going price for a brand new iphone *4* was $99 in december of last year, and you could get them even cheaper on sale: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2011/12/radioshack-to-offer-30-discount-on-iphone-4s-and-iphone-4-from-sunday-dec-11th-through-dec-17th.html

yes thats with 2 year contract, and not being tied to a contract can be a bonus in some situations. otoh you have to have service anyway and most carriers don't give a discount for bringing your own device, so in reality it often saves the typical person exactly $0. On top of that, what are the realistic chances a 3.5 year old phone with difficult to replace battery is going to last 2 more years without additional expense.

Unless I'm missing something, it sounds like you probably sold your friend a worn out 3.5 year old (and 3 generations behind current) iphone for more than the cost of a brand new one only one generation behind. Doesn't seem like a very good deal.

How quickly we forget......

Yes, that policy was eventually changed, at least for now; but the history of carrier veto over the sole authorized source of applications purely according to their profitability is.. Not Exactly... a good counter-argument.

Wrong:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/03/ios-5-1-upgrade-stats.html

Even though iOS 5.1 didn't include any major new feature and jailbreakers were warned to stay away from it, David Smith - developer of Audiobooks app (App Store link) reports that quite a large percentage of users have already upgraded to iOS 5.1.

Smith who gets approximately 100,000 downloads per week for his app, shares some interesting statistics about the adoption rate of the latest iOS software update:

More than 50% of the users had upgraded to iOS 5.1 within 5 days, which was almost as fast as users upgrading to iOS 5.0.1 released back in November.

Not sure if it's on their site any more, but here is a photo from the keynote given at the launch of the iPad 3's display.

This is a photo of an Apple slide.

http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/apple-new-ipad-retina-display-math.jpg

They are taking the distance "d" to be 10" and 15" (in classic non-SI units!) as typical viewing distances for the iPhone and iPad respectively, but your personal distance may vary - I sit 56 cm away from my iMac's screen (51 cm/20") and I hold my iPhone approximately 38 cm/15" from my eyes (I just measured both).

So, for me I'd be able to get by with a lower dpi screen if I went for a retina smartphone - I think 10" is quite close to hold your phone!

Apple responds to the nytimes article[1] . Lame.

* They employ and "incredible" number of people (34,000 in 2009, 47,000 in TFA) by comparison, Walmart employs 1.8 million. That's more than 300x more incredible.

* They have "more than 500,000 jobs for U.S. workers -- from the people who create components for our products". Must be a lot of americans working in china. How is 47,000 a "vast majority" of the workforce?

* "Apple has conducted all of its business with the highest of ethical standards". lol Yes, and all the child labor and suicide data will back that up.

[1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-response-on-its-tax-practices.html

Rephrased to better express what I'm pretty sure Cook meant. -- "I've always hated litigation and I continue to hate it," Cook said, "we just don't want people to outright copy our products."

The first half of that sentence is, in fact, the very attitude that countless Slashdotters have claimed they would like to see coming out of Apple. Kudos to Cook for not being knee-jerk litigious.

The second half of that sentence isn't at all unreasonable. Even if Apple isn't doing anything other than "combining existing, often poorly implemented, inventions into very well polished consumer products," that's still a valuable service and often extremely difficult to do well. So Apple shouldn't have to stomach competitors like Samsung coming along and stealing industrial designs and user interfaces which are the result of years of work and lots of R&D money. Seriously, Samsung has copied Apple's mobile devices so closely (right down to the packaging) that it would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2011/09/is-samsung-really-copying-apple-you-decide.html

If you want to be picky it's technically impossible to brick almost any kind of modern hardware, it just depends on what length you're willing to go to to unbrick your device, whether someone's already done the hard work and documented it. You might say there are multiple levels of "brickness"

Honestly though, it's you who doesn't know what you're doing. If I had done what you suggested, I would have ended up with a brick, as in "an unusable device with no clear way of restoring functionality and a negligable chance any of the hacker groups will dedicate their time to fixing". This is because the iOS4 firmware contains specific firmware for the radio processor, which hasn't been hacked yet. In order to safely update my device I needed to generate a iOS4 update firmware with code from the old firmware for the radio.

Here's one of the tutorials I found, but I had to check with numerous different ones and search for solutions to error messages that kept popping up.

Before I done all this I had to back up all my apps. I underestimated the importance of this last time I updated as numerous apps were no longer available for the slightly dated firmware version I was able to get running, so I ended up losing half my apps. This took a while too.

All in all it was a good afternoon's work, which I had been putting off for almost a year, but finally had to give in when I couldn't find any apps that worked with iOS3 any more.

Not necessarily true, but I don't think they'll make much of a difference. They might affect Apple sales because some people will look at iMac (or, more likely, have one recommended) but then see this and think "hey, it looks similar enough, I don't care about that extra gloss -- I think I'll get this and save $500". Those people would have bought a Mac, but are either a bit too price sensitive or just not that in to Apple to care that it's not the same thing, and they're going to get a poorer experience as a result.

When a user has already the disposition to spend the extra amount of money on a mac, there are very little aesthetic replacements that will convince him to do otherwise. You are talking about someone that already decided to spend that money on an iMac. If he hasn't, he was never an Apple prospect to begin with, and was going to go to Best Buy to look at their all-in-one desktop offerings.

This is like saying that Toyota can introduce a cheap Ferrari knockoff tomorrow, and prospect Ferrari buyers forego the Ferrari in favor of the cheap knock off. Again: thinking about buying a pretty mac is not the same as having ever accepted to pay the price, meaning you were never a potential customer.

That in itself is fine, but it kind of tarnishes the Apple brand by association. That's why Apple are suing Samsung -- not because of rounded corners and whatnot, but because if you look at it superficially, it appears to be 'a cheaper version of the same thing'. Apple don't want to get lumped in with everyone else, that's way they create individual products and so carefully build and protect their brand.

Apple is going after Samsung not for just one copy. They are going after them because Samsung is overdoing it. They make some of their products not only look like Apple products, but they make the friging box and even the frigging charging cable look like the Apple equivalent!
I'm sure you must have seen this image before:
http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/applesamsungsimilar.jpg

Mind you, I think Apple is taking the case too far into too many product lines. Not all Samsung products are Apple knockoffs, but it does seem they have a department dedicated to produce just knockoffs.

This is typical Samsung behavior and they have done it over the years to any dominant force in the market. Apple is not the first one to sue them over it. The Samsung BlackJack was just a copy of a Blackberry (and got sued by RIM over it's name) and same goes for the Samsung SYNC vz Motorola RAZR. It's Samsung's DNA to just copy design. I am not too familiar with Android Phones (too many of them) but I'm sure you will find an EVO ripoff somewhere in the Samsung lineup.

As this site says blatant copying: you decide.

Odd, you note that Apple had remotely wiped the phone prior to Gizmodo coming into possession of it, and then claim they rendered it non-functional. How does that sequence of events work?

So what you're saying is there is no difference between physically damaging a phone that does not belong to you and remotely wiping a phone (which can be recovered later)?

BTW, Apple disabled the hardware, they've even got a patent application for it. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/08/apple-will-be-able-to-remotely-disable-iphone-after-detecting-unauthorized-activity-such-as-hacking-jailbreaking-unlocking.html [iphonehacks.com]

And you know Apple cannot restore this phone, how?

Not exactly. The phone was damaged, and rendered non-functional during the process of dis-assembly and reassembly by the Gizmodo staff. Gizmodo knew when they bought the phone that it belonged to an Apple employee (and explicitly mentioned that fact in the first article). In fact, they knew *which* Apple employee it belonged to. We know they got that information from Hogan, because by the time the phone was in their possession, it had been remotely wiped.

Odd, you note that Apple had remotely wiped the phone prior to Gizmodo coming into possession of it, and then claim they rendered it non-functional. How does that sequence of events work?

BTW, Apple disabled the hardware, they've even got a patent application for it. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/08/apple-will-be-able-to-remotely-disable-iphone-after-detecting-unauthorized-activity-such-as-hacking-jailbreaking-unlocking.html

Before you say that this isn't enabled in iPhones, remember this was a prototype.

This feature is in iOS 4.2. Read more here:
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/09/ios-4-2-will-finally-allow-you-to-search-for-text-on-a-web-page-in-mobile-safari.html

There is really nothing complex about the feature usage, the most complex step is remembering to scroll to the bottom of the search suggestion box. Everything else is very very visual (you can see in the article screenshots of how it works.)

Its rather easy to go to the app store and download any of the other free third party browsers. I really dont know what's so hard about downloading a free app and giving it a test run. But if you find that hard then I give you a name: Mercury. Download the free version. This browser does all you want from Safari, plus adds tabs (safari will get those in iOS 5) and has a drop down to change the search provider. First option in that list is "Search this page." If you consider it too complex by this point, I have no clue how you get about these forums.

I don't really understand your anger, nor your position. The feature you talk about has been there since November 2010.

The iPad had an upgrade in less than 12 months after you bought it, but every other hardware maker releases better hardware within a month. Unless the list of "hardware pieces" you own only include Stereos, TVs and video game consoles, all of them were superseeded within a month, if not a week or even the next day. Only difference is you likely didn't care (OR you do only own stereos, TVs and video game consoles and never owned a computer, laptop or cellphone)

Am also not sure how you get about without that... a LOT of developers seem to love the 4.2 API so much they require it.

This hidden anger for something you claim to love so much you type forum posts from makes me think you likely do have either some hidden passion for that device and are grumpy that you have a first gen and not a second one, or you just a troll that does not even have one. I would normally not take the troll assumption fast, but you are complaining about the lack of a feature that has been there since November, 2010!!!

Oh and for iOS5, I have seen it running in an iPad 1st gen and runs smoothly, and that was a very early beta build.

Yeah, I'll get right on stuffing my iPad in my pocket.

I've never seen a sysadmin without a bag or briefcase.

Or the handlebar mount on my bike.

OK

why do you even mention the iPad?

Admins like large screens.

OK, but the person you were replying to mentioned N900, not any number of big-screen tablets, so maybe he doesn't like big screens enough to compromise portability? Anyway, I'm glad you mentioned the iPad, else I wouldn't have a good laugh over that iPad mount. Proof that just because something's a bad idea doesn't mean nobody will make it.

And being a hardcore sysadmin, I'll be glad that whenever the iStuff doesn't do something I want, let's say bluetooth mouse support, I can...

Why would you do all that instead of simply installing BTStack Mouse app?

Sysadmins supposedly being technical and all...

Because there wasn't one of those at the time; I believe I was the fourth person to get a mouse working at all -- and I did it without paying Nokia $100 for a license to program my own hardware, without having to exploit bugs to assert my ownership, and without using a desktop to do the programming. These days, thanks in a small measure to my work, there's an implementation in the community repository, though I doubt any of my code remains (been through a couple rewrites under Qole's competent maintainership).

Well then fuck you, clueless person who makes idiotic recommendations with no clue what UNIX is even about.

I've programmed more UNIX (or near UNIX, like MPE) systems than you can even dream of, clueless idiot too stupid to use Google before planting foot firmly in mouth.

To use is not to understand. If you think an iPhone is equivalent to an N900, you do not understand.

You've programmed UNIX, and yet one cannot program an iCrap which proudly proclaims its direct lineage from Bell Labs by way of BSD; does that seem right to you?

When one system is derived from UNIX code, yet you can neither write shell script nor compile C code, is it UNIX?
When another system has no UNIX code, relying on some wierd Finnish kernel and GNU libc + utilities, with a dash of busybox, x.org's kdrive and various Gnome components, yet behaves in every way more like UNIX than the first, is it UNIX?

FYI, the answer to the first is "not even a little" and the second is "hell yes, even though it is a messy patchwork UNIX", trademark law be damned.

Perhaps from now on you'll listen to those who know more than you before proving your level of inexperience. Oh, but that's why you posted AC, I dub you Clueless Coward. Sure no-one else knows it's you who are an idiot, but now YOU know... and that private shame will stay with you for some time.

As it happens, I posted AC, as I always do, because I believe words should be able to stand on their own merit, and if they cannot, they should be refuted, rather than accepted as true, covered over as it were by the speaker's good reputation. You've made it plain you assign respect to people, not arguments -- I guess it saves you the trouble of questioning what you hear. I leave it to bystanders to judge for themselves who's wrong here, but I assure you, I feel no "private shame" from this exchange.

Yeah, I'll get right on stuffing my iPad in my pocket.

I've never seen a sysadmin without a bag or briefcase.

Or the handlebar mount on my bike.

OK

why do you even mention the iPad?

Admins like large screens.

And being a hardcore sysadmin, I'll be glad that whenever the iStuff doesn't do something I want, let's say bluetooth mouse support, I can...

Why would you do all that instead of simply installing BTStack Mouse app?

Sysadmins supposedly being technical and all...

Well then fuck you, clueless person who makes idiotic recommendations with no clue what UNIX is even about.

I've programmed more UNIX (or near UNIX, like MPE) systems than you can even dream of, clueless idiot too stupid to use Google before planting foot firmly in mouth.

Perhaps from now on you'll listen to those who know more than you before proving your level of inexperience. Oh, but that's why you posted AC, I dub you Clueless Coward. Sure no-one else knows it's you who are an idiot, but now YOU know... and that private shame will stay with you for some time.

says that they have studied around 10,000 Android apps and have found that 800 of them are leaking private information of the user to an unauthorized server

Perhaps Google should follow Apple's lead here and simply change the EULA to give permission for application writers to access personal information and location.

That would certainly get rid of the "unauthorised" part of that statement.

When JailBreakMe 2 and 3 (the version that iOS 4.3.4 fixes being 3) were released, they came with a patch in Cydia to fix the underlying vulnerability. Not only are jailbreakers conscious of iOS's flaws, they're willing to clean up after themselves. The only people not protected against your drive-by hidden app are those smart enough to jailbreak but dumb enough not to patch, which is a fairly small market segment, because the usual "too-dumb-to-upgrade" population is replaced by the "click-yes-to-everything-iTunes-says" population.

Sorry, but even tried-and-true wisdom doesn't apply everywhere.

Never. I agree. Apple has enough employees and technology to thoroughly check apps it allows into the app store.

And wouldn't it be cool if Google had built in an app kill switch like Apple did?

You are hereby reminded not to get an Android phone if you lack the ability to do simple web searches.

There have been reports that when a grain of sand gets trapped under a case (sliding case), that it can scratch the back glass, and be compressed enough to cause a tiny crack to form which spreads, and the whole back shatters.

Of course who knows if these reports are true.
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/10/apple-investigating-potential-issue-with-slide-on-cases-and-iphone-4-causing-cracked-glass-back-panel.html

The only way this can be insignificant, is if AT&T drops, let say, 50 calls per 100.

Well, according to this, AT&T thinks that THIRTY dropped calls per 100 is "normal" in certain areas (note that the article was written LONG BEFORE the iPhone 4 came out), so it seems like you just admitted that, depending on the circumstances, that the difference IS "insignificant".

BTW, Apple ADMITTED that there was an issue, and were now looking further into the matter.

WTF else would you have them do?

There's information in this article from an ex- Apple Senior Marketing Manager describing the "controlled leak" process:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/01/apples-strategy-to-generate-buzz-controlled-media-leaks.html

"The way it works is that a senior exec will come in and say, "We need to release this specific information. John, do you have a trusted friend at a major outlet? If so, call him/her and have a conversation. Idly mention this information and suggest that if it were published, that would be nice. No e-mails!"

The communication is always done in person or on the phone. Never via e-mail. That's so that if there's ever any dispute about what transpired, there's no paper trail to contradict either party's version of the story. Both sides can maintain plausible deniability and simply claim a misunderstanding. That protects Apple and the publication."

John claims that the recent article on WSJ about pricing and launch dates of the upcoming Apple Tablet had "all the earmarks of a controlled leak".

So, people pick up the controlled leaks which they read about in other publications, then post their own articles speculating about other details (thereby increasing the hype).

Sooooo...

It might be genuine people writing genuine articles, but it's still fed from the strategic "leaks" put out by Apple, with the purpose of generating hype.

Just for your own information...

sync issues:

http://mashable.com/2009/11/09/iphone-windows-7-sync/
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10330485-263.html
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/intel-responds-on-iphone-sync-issues/
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/ipod-iphone-software-apps/139937-i-have-mind-boggling-iphone-3g-sync-problem.html
http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97665

Random shutdowns/decreased battery life:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2009/09/iphone-os-31-problems-random-shutdown-poor-battery-life-bricked-iphone-slow-performance.html
http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/16/iphone-31-bugs-random-freeze-shut/
http://iphone-chat.org/31-random-shutdown-and-battery-death-iphone-3g-65401/
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/iphone-therefore-iblog/2009/09/iphone-shutdown.html

As far as overheating/burning/asploading, it isn't a widespread problem...but...well...I'll just let the 103 million results speek for themselves:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS354US354&q=iphone+fire

Apple absolutely does care what you do with the iPhone. That's why they've updated the ROM in newer 3Gs models to prevent jailbreaking.

Gee, I hope that the OpenSSH guys don't have the gall to forcefully close this valuable way for others to operate your jailbroken iPhone for you.

What the blazes are you talking about, man? OpenSSH allows the user to use ssh and sftp in place of telnet and ftp. Thus, it specifically protects users from others seeing their passwords and other information. The problem with the way this was implemented on the iPhone is (according to the information about this hack) that it sets a default password for you, and if you don't change it, anyone who knows that default password can get in.

Apple absolutely does care what you do with the iPhone. That's why they've updated the ROM in newer 3Gs models to prevent jailbreaking.

Gee, I hope that the OpenSSH guys don't have the gall to forcefully close this valuable way for others to operate your jailbroken iPhone for you.

Apple doesn't care what you do with the iPhone, but they do have to close the holes that enable jailbreaking because they're security holes through which Something Bad could go to Do Something Bad.

Apple absolutely does care what you do with the iPhone. That's why they've updated the ROM in newer 3Gs models to prevent jailbreaking.

If Apple was okay with jailbreaking, and just interested in closing security holes, they would work on those holes, rather than on preventing jailbreaking altogether. (In fact, that's exactly what Palm does do. One of the first methods to install apps on a Pre was to e-mail yourself a link to an application. Palm (rightfully) closed that hole, but left intact the ability to root a Pre.

And I agree with stillpixel. I wouldn't be shocked if Apple themselves had a hand in this.

Thinking that Apple someone had a hand in creating this "worm" for jailbroken iPhones is not only considerably misguided (and unfounded), it's utterly moronic.

I didn't say I believe that Apple had a hand in it. I said I wouldn't be shocked if they did. They've got a vested interest in keeping people from jailbreaking, and this kind of thing (especially because it's relatively innocuous) fits the bill.

Its a good computer replacement except....

A) Can't edit documents

iPhones can edit Word documents.

B) No Flash

Flash does run on iPhones.

F) Little to no software or abilities to do some basic financial things (e-file taxes, etc)

Here are 10 iPhone Finance Apps That Count for iPhones and iPods.

Falcon

Exactly. From the page about the Cycorder app linked to in TFA:
"The free native iPhone app appears to be much better video recording app than iPhone Video Recorder which costs $19.95. "

Linux has been ported to the iPhone all ready. And that was last month.

The port isn't really ready for prime time and someone may have seriously "bricked" their iPhone in doing it, but it does prove the concept.

There are also a lot of open source applications for the iPhone that are not available through the App Store from Apple. All you have to do is unlock your iPhone and you're all set. There are also means by which you can disconnect your iPhone from AT&T and "open source" your phone company. Many of the iPhones sold were going to countries that Apple had no relationship with a phone company. Do these iPhones have access to their 3G networks? Do they have full functionality? Perhaps not, but Apple is always happy to sell their stuff.

Apple is very concerned that someone will attack users' iPhones and they have locked it down as much as possible. Macs running earlier System Software (pre OS X) were closed boxes that had lots of innovation and lots of applications written for them. And I don't think that any malicious code, save one that attacked a vulnerability in Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications, was ever successful on the Mac running the older System.

Apple's lockdown of the iPhone is understandable. I don't appreciate that the lockdown comes complete with no copy or cut and paste from application to application. But the phone does work and the plethora of applications being written for it are enriching the user's experience.

OTOH, the iPhone can only use apps from Apple's app store but not from any other source.

OTOH, you are wrong.

Not to mention that there are already cracked versions of App Store apps floating around, that do not even require a jailbroken phone to install!

Jailbreaking is voids the warranty.

No it doesn't, you simply restore the phone before bringing it in for service.

If you have to go through a procedure that only few people can do

If by "few" you mean "complete idiots" you might have a point. For everyone else, how hard is it to run a program?

More to the point, the potential market for Android is at least composed mostly of exactly the kind of people that would find it dead easy to jailbreak an iPhone, making the device equivalent in that regard.

then it cannot be compared to the ease with which the Android was DESIGNED to enable adding third party applications.

Actually it can be, but the difference is negligible in practice.

Well, if I can play Quake 1 on my iPhone at far far better framerate than I played it on my Mac at 320x200 in 1997 or whenever it first came out for Mac OS, it's definitely a freaking solid offering. There's nothing "dreamlike" about it other than that it's something people HAVE dreamed about for ages, and it's finally becoming possible. Consider that some dudes got straight-up Quake 3 running on iPod Touch/iPhone. No joke, check out the videos here. It's pretty damn surprising, honestly.

Also it's pretty safe to say the iPhone 3d hardware acceleration rivals that of a lot of onboard graphics chips even on today's motherboards. ;)

1. False. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2007/08/iphonevideoconf.html
2. False. It's more than a cell phone. People like to do other things wih an iPhone.
3. Maybe. It will be interesting to see how they deal with battery life.
4. False. You only need one camera and very simple optics. And every call does not have to be a video call. Video can be turned off easily.
5. http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=534

If your iPhone is jailbroken, there is this Dock application: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2007/11/iphone-dock.html It's not perfect (a bit too responsive to scrolling, icons too small, can't change the order of the icons), but it's definitely functional, and I hope Apple implements something similar in the future.

I'm pretty sure they've already found it: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2007/09/breaking-news-i.html#more

It may not work 100% for everyone for everything (for instance, if you don't have an active AT&T SIM), but it should work pretty well overall and, frankly, anything else will be coming down the line in short order. They always do.