App Name: iFaceLaugh
Category: Social Networking
Publisher: John Blossom
Version: 1.2
Size: 2.4 MB
Released Date: December 30, 2009
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Format: mp3 | Quantity: 16 | Size: 7mb
Broken_Robot
Chillin
Future_Connect
Just_Vibes
Latte_Going_On
Loft_Nme
Lounge_Vibes
Mo_Cowbell
New_Old_Jeans
Plucky
Quick_Bell
Soaring
Uptown
Urgent_Bells
Urgent_Message
Your Place
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Steve Jobs, presumably speaking from a hyperbaric chamber where he’s being nourished with an infusion of liquified developers-souls before his next public appearance, had a few interesting tidbits about the AppStore for the Wall Street Journal this morning. Namely, users have downloaded some 60 million programs for the iPhone representing sales of about $30 million since the launch last month — a 30/70 revenue split between Apple and developers, respectively. “The thing’s going to crest a half billion soon,” Jobs added, “I’ve never seen anything like this in my career for software.” He went on to say that phone differentiation is no longer about radios and antennas (or uh, battery life) but about software. Steve also confirmed the controversial iPhone application kill switch in the event that Apple inadvertently approves a malicious program for distribution. Jobs said, “hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull.” As to the $999.99 I Am Rich application, the dubious download that displayed nothing but a glowing red gem, pulling that from the store was a “judgment” call. Sure, but that doesn’t explain how it made it through the vetting process to begin with.
 iphoneblack It’s supposed to be your “life in your pocket,” not Apple’s. But a piece of code discovered in the iPhone operating system might keep you under Apple’s control.
Jonathan Zdrianski, author of the book iPhone Open Application Development, discovered a URL hidden in iPhone’s CoreLocation that he believes the iPhone uses to check whether any apps on your phone match with those listed in a database of blacklisted applications. Presumably, that would allow Apple to remotely de-authorize those apps, or perhaps even delete them.
“This suggests that the iPhone calls home once in a while to find out what applications it should turn off,” Zdrianski wrote. “At the moment, no apps have been blacklisted, but by all appearances, this has been added to disable applications that the user has already downloaded and paid for, if Apple so chooses to shut it down.”
Hum. So then all of those who got away with NetShare before it disappeared from the App Store aren’t so safe/lucky after all. Click to continue »
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