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Heil iPhone! (paging Tokyo Slim)

Eason

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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.../08/11/0317209

Engadget reports Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your [iPhone] device [...] "” a move which suggests that the device makes occasional contact with Apple's servers to see if anything is amiss on your phone.
How microsofty of them.
 

Tokyo Slim

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Um... this is not exactly surprising.
 

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Apple is often given a pass for the same crap that people come down hard on MS for.

Jobs states that it's only in case a malicious app gets past testing or whatever but I don't 100% buy that. As the OP stated, what if another company did this.
 

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