No Firefox for iPhone

According to John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, there will be no Firefox for the
iToy:
"[Apple] say[s] it's because of technical issues -- they
don't want outsiders to disrupt the user experience. That's
a business argument masquerading as a technological argument.
We're focusing on more important stuff. The iPhone has been
influential, but there's not many of them...The Razr V2 is a
[Linux on Mobile] phone, and you'll see more in the next
year or so."

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/...16-08/ff_lilly

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Mark Crispin wrote:
> According to John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, there will be no Firefox for
> the iToy:
> "[Apple] say[s] it's because of technical issues -- they
> don't want outsiders to disrupt the user experience. That's
> a business argument masquerading as a technological argument.
> We're focusing on more important stuff. The iPhone has been
> influential, but there's not many of them...The Razr V2 is a
> [Linux on Mobile] phone, and you'll see more in the next
> year or so."


Translation: Apple won't allow it, they want only Safari.

Mark Crispin <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> According to John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, there will be no Firefox for
> the iToy:
> "[Apple] say[s] it's because of technical issues -- they
>

Of course not. Apple can't control Mozilla like it can crack the whip
over the Mac developers chained down to OSX and owing their lives to
Apple. Mozilla would be a dangerous precident that would let the hackers
make someting useful out of the little platform that can't even cut and
paste.

You'll never see uncontrollable software in FruitFones.....

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Elmo P. Shagnasty posted:
> http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/06/...pp-store-apps/

Cool! This means that even if your jailbreak your iToy running 2.0 and
install unauthorized applications, Apple can rejail you and delete those
apps!

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote in news:elmop-
[email protected]:

> http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/06/...ivate-maliciou

“This suggests that the iPhone calls home once in a while to find out what
applications it should turn off. 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 them down.

“I discovered this doing a forensic examination of an iPhone 3G. It appears
to be tucked away in a configuration file deep inside CoreLocation.”

The little sidebar comment is very telling of what this company thinks of
its fanbois....

New Ford vehicles will come with special software in them to detect what
kind of gas and oil you put in them. If any oil company pisses off Ford
executives, a simple instruction over their hidden data link will disable
all cars, worldwide, using the fuel from the offending refineries. More
software will make sure you only install FORD stereos because if it detects
any foreign radios or cd players, the car won't start until the foreign
stereo system has been replaced with a genuine FORD stereo system.

Same idea, but a much more hostile customer base that would retaliate,
probably sending Ford to its grave in the process.

Apple fanbois will do what their told...much like Russian peasants under
Stalin. They'll buy anything the company produces with this kind of ****,
pure ****, built right into it. After all, they think Safari is a browser!

This tethering program will be the first to test this theory, once the ATT
lawyers have convinced Apple's bureaucrats that to leave it running might
cost them in court.

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote in news:elmop-
[email protected]:

> http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/06/...ivate-maliciou

Taking Firefox 3 to the apple URL results in:

{ "Date Generated" = "2008-08-08 03:28:16 Etc/GMT"; "BlackListedApps" = {
"com.mal.icious" = { "Description" = "Being really bad!"; "App Name" =
"Malicious"; "Date Revoked" = "2004-02-01 08:00:00 Etc/GMT"; }; }; }

I suppose you'd have to spoof something like a Mac to get it to work.....

Apple has a long history of seeding URLs looking for "outsiders".

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote in news:elmop-
[email protected]:

> http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/06/...ivate-maliciou

By the way, the license agreement allows them to **** on your iphone at
will turning on and off any app you bought a LICENSE to use, any old time
they wish.

I'm sure glad I don't have one......That really sucks.