JR Raphael, PC World
Alert! Alert! Apple’s walled garden has been breached!
Have you seen the headlines? Someone apparently managed to manipulate Apple’s iPhone App Store over the holiday weekend. As first reported by tech blog The Next Web, a sly lil’ developer filled up the App Store with dozens of his questionable creations. By the time the jig was up, the guy had pushed his bogus-looking wares into 42 of the 50 top seller spots for Apple’s e-books category.
And that’s just the start.
Found by Jay.
Oh noes! There is a problem in Utopia?
I have a friend who works for Intel and he showed me a Linux-based “iPhone” prototype that he was field testing.
It’s seemed cool but too late, right? (I didn’t tell him this.) But it got me thinking.
I’ve pretty-much converted to the cult of Linux — but I wish they would develop hardware optimized for their software. — rather than getting their software to run on existing hardware.
I would MUCH rather have a Linux “pad” with all open standards, completely hackable and no content rules about apps or eBooks — beholden to no big corporation with no onerous user agreements.
Wouldn’t you?
I don’t even care if it is Linux specifically — it just needs to be open standards and hackable.
And how hard would this be? Aren’t there Chinese companies that can knock-out just about anything you want in very short order?
Have ’em knock-out a couple thousand “pad” prototypes based on all open standards and _give_ them to the most active Linux developers. They’d have a FANTASTIC beta-version of a pad running in just months.
Then incorporate the geeks’ hardware suggestions in V 1.0 of the “pad” and it would be a great machine with a pretty minimum investment for somebody.
Yes, other companies would knock-off their own versions of the same machine but so what? IBM had a pretty-good run with the original PC, even though it was pretty-much all open.
why are there “apps”??? wasnt the web 2.0 revolution gonna happen all inside the browser???
#2: Linux is just a freeware version of Unix with a kernel originally written by Linus Torvalds. However, that doesn’t make it all cool or anything.
Call us when you have Linux applications that actually are useful and secure (that means not hackable).
On “pads:” the iPad seems to be a toy, from the demos I saw at a Best Buy.
We have skank sign! Apple skank sign?
“Call us when you have Linux applications that actually are useful and secure (that means not hackable).”
dvorak.org/blog
I have to say, that is much nicer than ass antlers.
I guess Apple has become a big enough target for the bad guys. We warned you fanboys.
@2 Greg_Allen: “I would MUCH rather have a Linux “pad” with all open standards, completely hackable and no content rules about apps or eBooks…”
Nokia did pretty much that with the N900 phone. A real handheld computer. Too bad Nokia doesn’t have the Apple hype machine.
@4 is a troll.
Would there happen to be a phone number a litle further down?
I took an interest in this story because my wife herself was a victim of $1,150 in charges to iTunes over the holiday and I suspect there is more to this than anyone is letting on because her account doesn’t show the transactions that the bank reported until they shut her card down. She is not a fanboy but created an account to purchase some songs last year and never used the account afterwards.
HTC income up 65% year on year
And word on the street is that MS sold 503 Kins. I’m smelling a trend.
#14 – You know Pedro bought one. LOL!
#15 pedro did the boob shot for the ad. I haven’t seen commercials that bad since the Palm Pre.
APPLE IPOD is exploring different ways to market its products..
Some 400 of Apple’s 150,000,000 customer base were scammed! Horrors! That’s …um… 2 into two, carry the one…
That’s 0.000002667%!!! What a shoddy operation Apple iTunes is. Only 99.9999973% protected from fraud.
Another decent article: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/07/04/appstore-hack-itunes/