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Originally Posted by punky
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It's worth noting that there is supposed a major security flaw to do with the way Windows handles message passing. It's not easy to use, but Microsoft had not attempted to fix it in XP (don't know about Vista and 7) because to do so would have broken a lot of apps.
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Lobbyists tend to be industry-based rather than company-based. There is something about Apple and the way its marketed and PR is handled. You know its an evil company but everyone ends up liking it. I mean the term "fanboy" was banned on here solely because of the Apple fans. That's nto a coincidence.
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Actually I don't think the term is banned. We (the CFT) didn't like it being used for a while because it was being used primarily as an insult in arguments between PS3 fans and Xbox 360 fans. Nothing to do with Mac or PC fanboys..
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The regulatory bodies really need to step up against them. For example the FCC aren't investigating allegations that Apple are denying apps that hurt AT&T's (their main benefactor) bottom line.
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That, I will admit, stinks. I think Apple need to be a little more transparent (and consistant) in their approval standards. But it's worth noting that they aren't the first (and certainly not the largest) phone manufacturer to restrict certain things because the mobile networks say so. That honour goes to Nokia. Having said that, there is no reason (at least on a lot of nokias) that you can't just go and download your own software.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10354209-37.html
So this issue originally was:
iPhone OS 3.0 did not identify itself properly to Exchange 2007 on any iPhone. This means that if you had a 3G and Exchange 2007 was configured to require hardware encryption, you could still login, even though the device does not have hardware encryption.
Apple's response to the fact that all previous iPhones were essentially breaking the security of any company using them:
"iPhone OS 3.1 is working properly with Exchange Server 2007," Apple representative Natalie Harrison told CNET News. "We added device encryption information to the data that can be managed by IT administrators using Exchange Server 2007. The policy of whether to support iPhone 3G, in addition to iPhone 3GS, which always has on-device encryption, on Exchange Server 2007 is set by the administrator and can be changed at any time."
The only way to continue to use the older iPhones - which were sold with 'Exchange support' - is to turn off the hardware encryption rule for those devices.
I'm pretty sure if this was any other company then people would be down on them like a ton of bricks
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For the average consumer, this would not be a problem (chances are they wouldn't even have access to exchange). If Apple are going to market the phone as a business phone, however, then they should correct the problem rather than asking you to lower your security to get it to work.
Having said all that, it doesn't affect me. While we are gradually introducing Exchange at work, I personally find it to be crap, so I am fighting to keep my email account on our Unix based IMAP server for as long as possible.
In fairness, it's not exchange that's crap. It's Outlook 2007. How on earth any program can be slow on a Core 2 Duo with 4 gig of Ram and connected to the server via Ethernet (only 100 meg though) is beyond me.