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Originally Posted by Chris T
This is what he actually said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/te...in&oref=slogin
I can see his point. While I would like to have the freedom to muck about with my iPhone (when I get one  ) as I do with my Palm currently (I would hope to replace the Palm with this), I appreciate the need to keep the phone working. And I don't think there's any basis for saying that the only apps that will be available will be overpriced widgets for checking stock prices either. 
Besides, if the thing has a fully-featured web browser, there are online services for almost everything these days. Google Docs & Spreadsheets springs to mind. |
Rather ironically, considering what Steve said in Chris's quote, security researches have discovered MAJOR flaws in the security on the Iphone..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07...vulnerability/
It seems that ALL the apps run as admin, and it's entirely possible for a malicious website to access your contacts, SMS messages and most other areas of the phone.
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Originally Posted by Gavin
First we had Ramrod, destroyer of servers... Now we have iPhone, destroyer of wireless LANs
That's some DOS capability. Buy a couple of iPhones and take down people's WLANs with it. |
Further to the above, it seems that the problem here is that the Iphone, given an SSID for a wireless network, will happily try and attach to ALL the access points with that SSID.