[LINK] Jobs admits to iPhone blacklist [Was: iPhone can kill apps Apple doesn't like...]

[David Boxall]

<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2223696/jobs-admits-iphone-blacklist>
> The Apple co-founder said in an interview with the /Wall Street 
> Journal/ that the popular handset does, in fact, contain a mechanism 
> that will allow the device to contact Apple's web site and delete 
> software ...
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David Boxall                    |  Dogs look up to us
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On 8/08/2008 at 8:59 AM Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>
>> Via The Register, an interesting blog entry...
>> http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/08/06/iphone-can-phone-home-and-kill-apps/
>>
>> Ahhh, the cargo cult again ...
>
> More like supposition and FUD.
>
> There is only one entry in the blacklist, dated 2004. Looks like a test entry.
>
> <https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps>
>
> And there is no evidence that Apple has programmed the iPhone to
> call home and make use of this list. Just supposition on the part
> of the blogger and author Zdziarski.
>
> "the device can phone home"  (does it? prove it!)
> "This suggests that the iPhone calls home" (why does it suggest that?)
> "by all appearances" (wow! actual scientific proof in that statement)
> "if Apple so chooses" (uh huh ... I'm bored now)
>
>
> cheers
> rickw
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