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Apple Disables Egyptian iPhones' GPS

Posted by timothy on from the just-extrapolate-a-bit dept.

floydman writes "Apparently the Egyptian government is paranoid about its community using GPS devices, to the degree that it demanded Apple remove any GPS functionality from its iPhone 3G. They claim that 'GPS functionality should be limited to military purposes.' Egyptian blogger Ahmed Gabr brought this issue up in another article, and talks about how this does not make sense, since Google maps and the like can be used. I also happen to know for a fact that most of the modern cars in Egypt have built-in GPS systems."

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  1. Why do Egyptians need GPS anyway? by RemoWilliams84 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't they just look around and figure out which pyramids they are standing between and go from there?

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    1. Re:Why do Egyptians need GPS anyway? by Keith_Beef · · Score: 5, Funny

      Pyramid based triangulation...? No, that will never catch on.

      K.

  2. Re:Swell plan by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Funny

    grab your iphone.. fire up urban spoon...

    shake...

    Choices are sand, sand, sand...

    Hmmm.... I think we'll have sand today.

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