The mothership has gotten heat from developers and pundits over its apparent inaction vis-a-vis app piracy, a problem observers say has only gotten worse in recent months. Although criticism of Apple is unlikely to subside, the biggest iOS pirate site has been pushed off shore and the problem has moved to countries ‘that do not have copyright laws.’
Ready to suspend disbelief? As demos go, this one is both disarmingly impressive and yet, forgive my cynicism, presents a number of opportunities to beg the question, “What exactly is going here?” Whereas there’s a Rube Goldberg-esque logic string running through the concept, I’m still holding out for the punchline.
Call it a win-win play for the world’s best known Apple hacker? He submitted an iOS app that “behaves in a manner different from its intended use” and that can’t be bad for his cred. However, Miller says his intentions were and have always been pure, calling Cupertino’s action “rude.”
Root your fourth generation Apple smartphone or media player and get the world’s most advanced digital assistant. Well, not quite yet, but the groundwork has been done and it shouldn’t be too long now. So, why buy a new iPhone 4S when last year’s model costs $100 less and gets you 90 percent of the goodness?
A patch for a hack and an eye for a tooth. Apple is now offering an update that addresses the well publicized “malicious PDF” attack vector. Although, this hack hasn’t yet been associated with malicious attacks in the wild, jailbreakers and their app thieving fellow travelers have.
A “new” report from one of the usual suspects states Apple’s mobile operating system has “full protection” against malware attack and that Android has “little protection.” So, will this news cause you to drop Android and/or switch to iOS? If not, what are you personally doing to protect yourself?
That there are more apps for the PC, which is billed as being more “open,” than the Mac — can’t be argued. Similarly, whereas there isn’t a single Mac virus — i.e. self-propagating — there are hundreds of thousands on the PC side with more arriving daily. Thereupon, a new twist on the open versus closed paradigm is playing out in smartphones.
The tech world has been going bananas over the last seven months trying to find a white iPhone 4 somewhere, or at least to figure out why there are no white iPhone 4s anywhere in captivity.
In a week that featured a lot of news on security from apps that pierce it to Web sites that ignore it, Apple has acknowledged a flaw that makes it possible to gain easy access to iPhones, with a fix on the way.
It’s as easy as one-two-three, really. And, best (worst) of all, there’s a short, sweet and extremely easy to follow video on how to do it yourself. The haters will rail and the fanbois waffle, and that can only mean one thing — it’s just another day.
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