[ale] OT Apple applies for patent to kill your phone

[Joshua]

Hopefully this move by apple will cause them to lose market share to 
other device manufacturers.  I believe I ran across an article that 
mentioned close to 50% of all i-devices are jailbroken or hacked.  If 
that many people decided to use a different product it would send a 
strong message for sure.  Not that Apple would change their business 
model, but it would be fun to watch their stock prices fall.

Jim Philips wrote:
> Apple devices are morphing into the HAL 9000:
>
> "I'm sorry, Dave. I can't let you do that."
>
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com 
> <mailto:damon at damtek.com>> wrote:
>
>     http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/21/apple-attempts-to-patent-kill-switch-that-roots-out-unauthorized/
>
>     And that is why I don't like i-things.  Doesn't mean you can't like
>     them.  I don't buy crunchy peanut butter either, but you could.
>     --
>     Damon
>     damon at damtek.com <mailto:damon at damtek.com>
>
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