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Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps
mikesd81 writes "Engadget reports Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your device. It seems the new 2.x firmware contains a URL which points to a page containing a list of 'unauthorized' apps — a move which suggests that the device makes occasional contact with Apple's servers to see if anything is amiss on your phone. Jonathan Zdziarski, the man who discovered this, explains, 'This suggests that the iPhone calls home once in a while to find out what applications it should turn off. At the moment, no apps have been blacklisted, but by all appearances, this has been added to disable applications that the user has already downloaded and paid for, if Apple so chooses to shut them down. I discovered this doing a forensic examination of an iPhone 3G. It appears to be tucked away in a configuration file deep inside CoreLocation.'" Update: 08/11 13:07 GMT by T : Reader gadgetopia writes with a small story at IT Wire, citing an interview in the Wall Street Journal, in which this remote kill-switch is "confirmed by Steve Jobs himself."
Take a look at http://androidwiki.com/wiki/Introduction_to_Android . In this aspect Apple has to leverage the iPhone as quickly as possible.
Vladimir Botka
Sounds like a stupid browser problem to me. Which one uses smartquotes?
How do you propose that slashdot support both iso-8859-1 AND unicode simultaneously according to the what stupid commenter wants? What if they want to use UTF-16 next?
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Sounds like a stupid browser problem to me. Which one uses smartquotes?
How do you propose that slashdot support both iso-8859-1 AND unicode simultaneously according to the what stupid commenter wants? What if they want to use UTF-16 next?
EBCDIC!
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If /. missed the news, then what is better? Never have it posted in here at all, or post it here (better late then never) for the people who only read /.?
But if you are reading newer news, then why don't you take a few minutes to submit these stories to /.?
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All your apps are belong to us!
+2 Insightful.
I love Slashdot moderating. It always gives methe image of some bearded wiseman nodding their head and saying "hmmm, that *is* both interesting and insightful."
That's nothing, I fuck plastic yoda dolls, shove them WAY up my hiney!
Hmmm, interesting and insightful!
All intents and purposes. Not intensive purposes.
For some reason at least in firefox any non-ascii character gets screwed up.
My suspicion is that the ajax based form is submitting UTF-8 but slashcode is expecting ISO-8859-1.
note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
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Instead, we are treated to a headline that displays inaccurate three-day old information.
And that's the way we like it. Now get off our lawn! *shakes fist*
I never thought of that, mabye I should go do it right now, I do have the 5 mod points.
I upgraded to 2.0 from 1.1.1 and jailbroke it - didn't technically brick it but might as well have: more Safari lock-ups, more instances of apps randomly quitting or failing to even load, more instances of the keyboard in text/SMS reacting at about one character every two seconds, sluggishness in the Contacts list, etc.
I really hope it's not this bad for the more legitimate customers.
Can anyone running 2.0 let me know how theirs is going?
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'
Why? They are by far the best devices out there. Invariably people who compain about the price are peopl that can't afford them. Well poor you and all that, but I, a fairly average person, can.
As to "vendor locked", that's freetard talk. Irrelevant to what I want. When I want the inferior crap that is Linux, I'll ask your advice, until then realise that it's only your preference, not a universal truth.
someone needs to mod this guy as flamebait