It should fall under "fire damage", which, for any other policy, includes problems caused by smoke as well as heat and flame. AppleCare does not cover fire damage... you will need additional coverage.

Agreed on the price of these apps (though I like the price of the lifetime traffic). Can't back you up, however, on the slowness you're experiencing... There's no reason (I can think of) that installing a whole lot of apps should cause your iPhone to run more slowly.

Judge just wants iPhone on Verizon. :D

For all the fun they're having, I didn't see a whole lot of smiling.

Hahaha, sweet. If you are who you say you are, then thanks for sharing this information, and best wishes!

They were making the private API call to read that sensitive information, or Apple wouldn't have blocked it. They may not have even stored the information on their side, and what they were doing with the information is open to speculation, but they definitely were reading it.

..Oh, I mean, RAAAWR Apple totally sucks for having a review process m i rite.

Thus, why that API is private. Before making it public, Apple would certainly create UI that allowed the user to block such data from being sent. Especially mobile phone numbers... those are considered to be pretty much off limits these days.

There's a huge difference between Noah here and Psystar. If Noah, a geek with a lot of time on his hands, wants to build a Hackintosh, Apple's not going to come after him. They're not going to support him either, but they're not taking him to court. Apple's problem is with Psystar circumventing their license and their business model. If Mac OS X is to be sold on computers other than Macs, Apple has the sole right to do so.

As far as Apple's licensing approach goes, it's been both their greatest down fall, and their saving grace. They tried going the clone-licensing route back in '96/'97, and it nearly killed the already critically-ill company. Steve re-dedicated the company to making their original approach work: seamless interoperability between their OS and their hardware specifications. It seems to have been the right choice: based on Apple's growth, people are sick of what happens when an OS is forced to support an unlimited variety of hardware. Apple provides the only workable alternative for the masses. Any other company is free to try the same approach, and succeed or fail at it. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to see Sony create their own UNIX-based OS and distribute it on the VAIO line.

If you don't like Apple's licensing strategy, that's fine; you're certainly not alone. But please don't go throwing the law around. Apple is in violation of no laws here, and nobody is being "forced" to do ANYTHING... you're completely free to not buy their products, so please stop using that word... it's just worthless hyperbole. Please just exercise your freedom to not buy their stuff, and move on.

It is not fair to compare what AT&T has to do with what most carriers around the world have to do, especially Asian carriers. Congrats, you gave fast 3G to a country the size of California... AT&T has 49 other states to worry about. When you have to cover as many customers as AT&T does, progress happens slowly. I'd be willing to bet big guys in Europe like Vodaphone aren't the most awesome carriers either.

They didn't even *sell* 100,000, if you're taking that word to mean "sold to an actual end user". From Motorola's perspective, selling a Droid means that it's no longer in their hands. They've moved over 100,000 Droid units into the channel, but if it's like many overhyped launches, a lot of those are probably on shelves, and in storage.