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Aug 08, 08 - 12:49 pm Comment from: pastrychef

There are just too many conspiracy theorists out there...

Sounds like something out of the Bourne Identity movies.

Aug 08, 08 - 01:12 pm Comment from: Big Al

Guess what, they really are out to get you.

Finally we get some truth out of all the crazy reports going around about this. Thanks.

Aug 08, 08 - 01:27 pm Comment from: Bluefin

Hey, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you guys....

Aug 08, 08 - 01:39 pm Comment from: hypermark

Personally, I look at this as Apple's version of Border Control for access to the iPhone Universe.

As I believe that governance is part of the equation, I say hurrah!

In fact, I just posted on this aspect of the topic:

iPhone Universe: Network Borders, Kill Switches and The Core Location
http://thenetworkgarden.blogs.com/weblog/2008/08/iphone-universe.html

Check it out if interested.

Cheers,

Mark

Aug 08, 08 - 01:42 pm Comment from: HMCIV

@Bluefin

Hey! It's not paranoia if they really ARE out to get you!

I do not understand why people dont understand that the blacklist is for gps only. How would you like it if an app gave your personal information to the developer. That would be the worst kind of spyware thier. It checkts the website whenever an application asks for location for the first time. Here is proof. Take an ipod touch. Restore it. Then open up maps. Load up the map for where you are at. Then exit it and disconect from the internet. Now go into maps again have it locate. Allow the program maps to access your location. it will never find it. However if the first time you use location in maps you are connected it will work . Then when your disconected and move somewhere else it will be able to locate you without connecting to the internet.

Aug 08, 08 - 02:18 pm Comment from: Mac-nugget

With kidnaping and general security problems on the rise in Mexico, this would be most unwelcome in that country. Good move Apple.

Aug 08, 08 - 02:20 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

"Obviously, nobody would want apps out there that can access GPS that might be intended to harass, stalk, or otherwise violate people's privacy and other legal rights."

Nobody?

Aug 08, 08 - 02:33 pm Comment from: Andy

Well, my motto has always been 'be prepared!' You gotta stay ahead of guys in black helicopter, if-you-what-I-mean....

Aug 08, 08 - 02:52 pm Comment from: Ray

Actually, Apple buried Jimmy Hoffa'a body in the Core.

just my $0.02

Aug 08, 08 - 03:32 pm Comment from: Cubert

Damn! Well there goes my idea for "Stalker" - an iPhone app that lets you stalk your ex-girlfriend or any random chick you met at the bar last week. Her iPhone would "call home" to yours every 2 minutes and would provide you with her exact location - kinda like Twitter on blow.

You: "Hey, small world meeting you randomly like this again."
Her: "Get lost, freak!"

Ahhhhh......love!

Aug 08, 08 - 04:03 pm Comment from: NCIceman

Dick Cheney and his goons know where you are!!

Aug 08, 08 - 04:39 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Cubert,

"You: "Hey, small world meeting you randomly like this again."
Her: "Get lost, freak!"

Married guys have those kind of interactions all the time just laying in bed. At least I do. Ahhhhh.....crap!

Aug 08, 08 - 05:51 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

"Dick Cheney and his goons know where you are!!"

So does Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

Cheney scares us as much as they do. Bring it on you old bastard.

YOU LOSE.

-Them

Aug 08, 08 - 08:40 pm Comment from: Martin

@ pastrychef and Lladnar

huh ?

this is completely plausible, and very probably completely true.

Aug 08, 08 - 09:15 pm Comment from: Hm...

@ The Great Apple Fanboy Massacre

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're *not* out to get you...

Aug 09, 08 - 06:11 pm Comment from: The Other Steve

Protecting the consumer is more important than protecting the developers.

BTW - NetShare has NOT been disabled on my iPhone. If Apple was looking to disable apps they were unhappy with, NetShare would be on the top of their list.

Apple should KILL all the apps if you ask me as all they do is make your iPhone crash faster!

The iPhone 2.0.1 and iTunes 7.7.1 is so totally unstable it crashes everyday and needs a restore. Apps quit constantly, all of them doesn't matter which one. Once one app quits they all do. Restarts and hard resets do not help. Only a total restore is needed. Sometimes when an app quits it kills the iPhone and you are left with a Apple logo.

iTunes takes forever to do backups on the iPhone that wind up useless as when you try to do a restore using a backup, 9 times out of ten iTunes tells you it is corrupted and you need to restore as a new iPhone.

iTunes never knows when you need updates on the apps and is wrong most of the time. If you do and update with iTunes of an app, it downloads the app and recreates the file instead of overwriting it. Take a look in your Mobile Application folder and you will find tons of files building up with incremented file names like AIM, AIM 1, AIM 2, etc.

The iPhone is a fantastic device when it works, which is never more than a day if you install any apps and try to use them. Beware installing, updating or deleting apps directly on the iPhone very often will kill it leaving you with the white Apple logo of death and no phone at all. Such a pleasant experience when it happens in the middle of the day leaving you without even a cell phone. Make a great Apple logo flashlight!

I returned the iPhone for replacement, I synced it with different Macs, tried loading less app, different apps, no apps. Nothing really helps. This is the buggiest products Apple has probably ever released.

The Genius Bars and the Apple support forums are loaded with iPhone problems so I am not alone!