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Comments on: iPhone can phone home and kill apps?

Apple has apparently included a blacklisting mechanism in the newest iPhone software, through which it can check for unauthororized applications and disable them.

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by setgo August 7, 2008 1:48 PM PDT: Oh darn DancingDiver you mean your not going to buy one? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Now what are we going to do? Please, please take another day to think it over... please!

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by gggg sssss August 7, 2008 3:04 PM PDT: This is like Sony protecting their precious songs with a rootkit to prevent the CD they sold me from being played in my computer. THEY thought it was a great idea to reach into MY computer to do what THEY want? Where does Apple get off? How is this different from any sftwarevendor time bombing their software?

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by camel485 August 9, 2008 10:16 PM PDT: this junk written about the iphone every two posts should be replaced by literature that is actually meaningful, cnet your editor needs to filter out all the worthless articles; Like this Reply to this comment


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by Motyoj August 10, 2008 8:56 AM PDT: I wonder if Peter Griffin has an iPhone...; Like this Reply to this comment

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