Goddamn typo/
Nope, that's not an invasion of privacy AT ALL
Although, they are simply trying to enforce a rule, here...
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Nemesis
Patent filings don't mean intention to deploy. Big companies like Apple invent and patent all kinds of shit they don't end up doing.
A brighter future for a darker age.
Decemberist
Link doesn't work.
Anyway, iPhones are nothing but overpriced fancy-looking toasters. If you want a real smartphone, go with HTC.
The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
See ALL the stars!
I'm confused; won't this be short-circuited by every Android device in existence?
Da Rules excuse all the inaccuracy in the world. Listen to them, not me.
Try this
link.
Nemesis
Fixed your title.
@Milos Stefanovic: What broke that URL is the forum's auto-hyphenation of long lines. In such a case, find the string '-%20' in the address bar and remove it.
A brighter future for a darker age.
Decemberist
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Thanks, this one works.
This method works, too. Thank you.
(sobs) The world is ruined! Capitalism is destroying our lives! It ain't natural, I tell you!
The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Er, why would it be?
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Micromastophile
Thanks Apple! Now any non-apple recording device will never have this defect feature for at least 20 years!
Whee!
Nemesis
I strongly suspect no Apple device will, either. It'd be the bad-publicity gift that keeps giving.
A brighter future for a darker age.
See ALL the stars!
Because I can write my own camera app that ignores the sensors.
Nemesis
@Yej: if Google put such a thing in Android, only by running a custom Android install could you do so. The restriction would likely not be in the camera app itself. Given that producing and installing such a custom image is a little bit of a pain in the ass, and is impossible on some hardware ... the vast majority of humanity would be so restricted.
A brighter future for a darker age.
I see the Awesomeness.
Partially through blanket patents designed to deny access to similar technology.
edited 16th Jun '11 4:47:44 PM by Deboss
Fight smart, not fair.
More like giant cherries
Can't someone just put an infrared filter over the camera?
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play
Sorry, I'm getting cancer! I have extreme reactions to bull.
But seriously, this won't happen. I'm sure Apple-ites will still buy it. I bet ya, Jobs fired his entire Market Research division.
That patent will be hacked. Inevitability.
Pro-Freedom Fanatic
Intellectual property is a cancer: Due to it, the technology you buy will serve the content owners' interests instead of providing functionality to the guy that actually buys the tech.
You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.
I spend £200 on new shit. Most of that is going to the tech company. I don't own the thing, I own the right to use it. Intellectual property is like cholesterol, mush like capitalism. Some is great for your body, (i.e. the consumer/economy/gov't) but too much can stifle the body and slowly kill it.
Pro-Freedom Fanatic
If you buy a device, you own the device. You can therefore proceed to do with the device as you see fit. Modify the Hell out of it. Jailbreak it. Swap pieces at will, assuming there is a way to do it. Smash it with a sledgehammer. Your widget, your business.
Licensing is evil, and they're trying to extend it to hardware. It should be stopped.
edited 20th Jun '11 7:36:27 AM by SavageHeathen
You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.
I wouldn't go that far. I agree that all devices should not have propriety USB and/or charger inputs, because buying stupid cables for separate devices is stupid. But licensing is needed. If I was a producer of a TV show, I don't want people stealing my shit. If my lyrics/ambiguous rhyming prose became actual works (a stroke of luck), I wouldn't want them to be stolen and claimed as someone else's work. Some licensing is needed. I wouldn't want my licensing for my rhyming prose to descend into "nobody can touch this, parody this, tweak it a bit, or even look at it" which is the way licensing for software and hardware is in now, which should be stopped. Most people who jailbreak are doing it because they like the iPhone and are probs experimenting on iPhones they have bought.
edited 20th Jun '11 7:48:57 AM by Inhopelessguy
Pro-Freedom Fanatic
You can't pirate hardware. You've either stolen it or bought it. If you've stolen it, you're already a criminal. If you've bought it, that particular piece of hardware is your property and nobody's got any business restricting what you can do or can't do with it.
Hardware Terms of Use and licensing restrictions should die in a fire, and they should die in a fire right now.
I fully support attribution rights, but I also support noncommercial copyright and patent infringement as an inalienable part of freedom.
edited 20th Jun '11 8:07:37 AM by SavageHeathen
You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.
I knew that there was a reason
I didn't get an iphone.