Once again, apple steps on it's dick
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Once again, apple steps on it's dick
So apparently Steve Jobs thinks his customers want only the software which he says is ok. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE ('digitalTrends.com')</div><div class='quotemain'>An Apple patent filing details technology to identify unauthorized iPhone users or illegitimate uses - like jailbreaking - and shut down the device.
Apple has applied for a patent on technology that could deactivate iPhones or other devices when it believes the device is being used illegitimately or by unauthorized users—and the devices could make these determinations both by how the device is being used, but also through biometric information like a user’s face, voice, and even their heartbeat.
The <span style="color:#2972a5">patent application</span> surfaced last week, and targets a number of behaviors Apple describes as compromising or hacking a device, including removing the SIM card, unlocking, jailbreaking, and even moving a predetermined distance from a synced device.
The application also identifies a number of methodologies for determining whether a user is legitimate, including photographing the user and applying facial recognition software, analyzing their voice, and analyzing a users’ heartbeat using a “heartbeat sensor”—which, so far as we know, doesn’t exist in any current Apple product. In addition to potentially shutting down the device if unauthorized users are detected, the technology could also be used to wipe sensitive information—address books, email, passwords, account details, and those sensitive text messages—if it detects an unauthorized user.
Other implementations could have the device go into spy mode, recording and reporting the users’ activities, including sending pictures of the current user to a remote service, along with keylogs, location information, and data traffic.
Apple has received a good deal of criticism for tightly controlling the iPhone, iPad, and other device lines, often in ways that interfere with legitimate uses of the devices. However, there are undoubtedly uses of these sorts of biometric identification technologies that could appeal to some users, and Apple’s existing <span style="color:#2972a5">Find my iPhone</span> service has found a number of supporters.
The Library of Congress recently ruled that jailbreaking mobile phones to switch carriers or add unauthorized applications is <span style="color:#2972a5">not a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act</span>.</div>
Apple did pretty much the same back in the 1980s. Being so proprietary was their downfall before. Why would they do it again? Their business model is that of a little kid taking his ball home. At first everyone wants it, then they just get their own. I'm switching to Android.
Apple has applied for a patent on technology that could deactivate iPhones or other devices when it believes the device is being used illegitimately or by unauthorized users—and the devices could make these determinations both by how the device is being used, but also through biometric information like a user’s face, voice, and even their heartbeat.
The <span style="color:#2972a5">patent application</span> surfaced last week, and targets a number of behaviors Apple describes as compromising or hacking a device, including removing the SIM card, unlocking, jailbreaking, and even moving a predetermined distance from a synced device.
The application also identifies a number of methodologies for determining whether a user is legitimate, including photographing the user and applying facial recognition software, analyzing their voice, and analyzing a users’ heartbeat using a “heartbeat sensor”—which, so far as we know, doesn’t exist in any current Apple product. In addition to potentially shutting down the device if unauthorized users are detected, the technology could also be used to wipe sensitive information—address books, email, passwords, account details, and those sensitive text messages—if it detects an unauthorized user.
Other implementations could have the device go into spy mode, recording and reporting the users’ activities, including sending pictures of the current user to a remote service, along with keylogs, location information, and data traffic.
Apple has received a good deal of criticism for tightly controlling the iPhone, iPad, and other device lines, often in ways that interfere with legitimate uses of the devices. However, there are undoubtedly uses of these sorts of biometric identification technologies that could appeal to some users, and Apple’s existing <span style="color:#2972a5">Find my iPhone</span> service has found a number of supporters.
The Library of Congress recently ruled that jailbreaking mobile phones to switch carriers or add unauthorized applications is <span style="color:#2972a5">not a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act</span>.</div>
Apple did pretty much the same back in the 1980s. Being so proprietary was their downfall before. Why would they do it again? Their business model is that of a little kid taking his ball home. At first everyone wants it, then they just get their own. I'm switching to Android.
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Steve Jobs also said Flash is fading fast... In which I heard Adobe is dropping support for their Apple software. Which would suck for Apple since schools, companies, and etc. all by Apple for the name brand and quality preloaded with Adobe suites. And would deter Apple Products from looking at the Flash most of the internet is made of. So expect something big to happen with Microsoft and Adobe.
They have got very greedy from the iPod/Phone/Pad and they think do what ever.
But yes, they are not only stepping on their dick but shooting it off.
I'm now done with Apple.
They have got very greedy from the iPod/Phone/Pad and they think do what ever.
But yes, they are not only stepping on their dick but shooting it off.
I'm now done with Apple.
