All your iphones are belong to us

[Pakhan]

Apple can remove things from your phone remotely.  Imagine if someone else got into all the iphones.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080811/tc_nf/61270

[Grampa]

VS buys Apple

[707soldier]

no worries, i'm so use to big brother.
it doesn't suprise me at all 

[cmorgan47]

yeah, they (i.e., jobs) fessed up to it.

the alternative being a virus scanner that updates.... pretty much same functionality with lots more overhead.

[OwnyTony]

Apple has become what it was trying to smash.  Classic 80s commercial anyone?

[derby]

i guess another scenario would be a malicious app compromising multiple iphones and everybody looking at apple and saying "why the hell can't you stop this?"

it seems they're very aware of the fact that it's a function not to be taken lightly.

[TiNi]

this only applies to 3G models, right?

[MaxPower]

i guess another scenario would be a malicious app compromising multiple iphones and everybody looking at apple and saying "why the hell can't you stop this?"

it seems they're very aware of the fact that it's a function not to be taken lightly.

Agreed.  Enough of the overreactionary Big Brother chatter.  It's a company protecting their interests, not trying to steal your contact list.