Major security hole found in iPhone

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You are correct, but a little off the mark

I completely agree that if someone is complaining about flaws in the iphone, based on the notion that similar products do not have some similar type flaws, they are wasting their breath.

I think the point is here is that the iphone is essentially a newer product then the others in an already well established product type. Apple didn't have to reinvent the cell phone here; they simply had to improve upon what was already available. One would hope that the improvements would come by way of avoiding serious glitches and eliminating at least one or two of the kinds of security flaws that were made evident in other similar products.

Further, it was not like the iphone was promoted as some poor mans cheap answer to the cell phone, far from it. The iphone was hyped to the max and promoted as the next best thing you could own. That pretty much implies security shouldn't be an issue. The idea that "new" products will always, and almost forgivably, have some very rough glitch's is wearing a little thin. I didn't see too many people out there who thought the glitches in Vista were forgivable.

Minor glitch's, those weird little annoyances that creep up that nobody would expect are understandable. When coming out with a new product that is a completely new thing, usually doing an entirely new piece of work, then sure, even some significant glitch's are to be expected but you might find that acceptable if the product is generally doing the "new work" as advertised.

The iphone is essentially still a cell phone, being sold as a new and improved replacement for many of our current standards like the Blackberry. One does have to expect in these kind of cases that the new improved replacement will not just be new improved eye candy, but instead looks toward being a better functioning unit, and in the case of a cell phone even better security.

Posted by: Cayble   Posted on: 08/29/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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