Apple Pwnz by 19 Yr Old

Read: 

• http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/08/01/meet-comex-the-iphone-uber-hacker-who-keeps-outsmarting-apple/

Apple really needs to consider it's "security" via obscurity and who knows what they have installed that only seems secure.

A Loser's Whining

Read:

• http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-11/apple-files-new-trade-complaint-against-htc-over-devices.html
• http://www.osnews.com/story/24935/Apple_Whines_about_Software_Patents_Some_More

Losers are always losers. When they fail, they simply pull out stupid stuns to attempt to even up the game. Little do they know of the word "INNOVATION". Apple did well innovating the iPhone in the beginning but when Google's Android showed them that they can beat Apple, Apple whine about and pull patent threats at manufacturers like HTC. They lost their innovation along time ago and could only cry about with patent battles.

If you see a competitor doing better, find a way to beat the competitor's products like a real man.

Apple's Anti-Camera Technology

Read:

• http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/16/new-apple-technology-stops-iphones-from-filming-live-events/?test=latestnews

Restrictions always comes with more problems and more complex issues. What if, a malicious user were to misuse the technology Apple developed to disable cameras on iPhones and other possible iDevices for their own benefits and managed to compromise the iOS via some compromised coded messages in the laser ?

Apple silently logs user data

Read:

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tracking-prompts-privacy-fears
• http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/ (Includes software for use)

From day 1, we should always doubt our private data in third party hands. But now, it is clear that our personal devices are betraying us big time.

HTML5 flash video

Visit:

• http://www.skyfire.com/ (Skyfire mobile browser homepage)

What I felt is just not appropriate of the Skyfire technology which converts flash videos to html5 videos is because, you have to convert flash to html5 videos, which needs an extra step then just having a flash player in the page. Imagine if you want to watch flash videos, you need to send it to their cloud servers somewhere to convert the video you wanted and then send it back to you. It's such a long route and it takes much much longer then a native flash player built-in.

Since Apple doesn't allow Adobe Flash player, why not create a plugin that would replace the flash codes to a Smokescreen player call which would use Javascript and HTML 5 to become a flash video player ? Or maybe, the page should run their flash videos with a backup Smokescreen player in the event no Adobe Flash player is detected. Since Smokescreen is HTML 5 and Javascript, it should theoretically work well with HTML5 enabled players like Apple's Safari.

Why not take a shorter route than a longer route ?

Prevent updating your jail broken iOS devices

Read: http://lifehacker.com/5659226/prevent-itunes-from-updating-jailbroken-devices-with-a-bash-script

Although I don't use Apple devices or anything Apple (because I don't like Apple), this is a good article to prevent one of the big nasties from controlling your FREEDOM.