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Every time I try to load Google Reader on my iPhone:

Or just sucking? I’ve been experiencing “server not responding” errors all weekend when surfing the web on my iPhone.

I’m seriously considering bailing on AT&T and jumping to T-Mobile for the first Android phone. I figure then I’ll jailbreak my iPhone so it works on T-Mobile’s network as well.

This article got me a little closer to being sold on the G1.

Sandwiches and Apples is now optimized for the iPhone.

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iPhone jailbreak with Quickpwn doesn’t need iTunes based restore. Whatever that means.

Check this out:

Apple has apparently included a blacklisting mechanism in iPhone OS 2.x through which the device can phone home, check for unauthorized applications, and disable them. The OS includes a URL that points to a page containing a list of unauthorized applications, specifically those listed here.

According to Jonathan Zdziarski, author of the book iPhone Open Application Development and an iPhone forensics manual:

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.

If true, this really goes beyond being simple anti-choice and into some weird authoritarian realm. Why shouldn’t a consumer be allowed to modify a product he paid for?

Apple = Microsoft with better UI

COOLER HEADS PREVAIL: CNET follows up with some legitimate reasons for a kill-switch.

Just updated the WordPress app for iPhone. A couple of bugs:
1) it deleted the blog information I’d set before so I have to re-add my blogs to it

2) some graphic issues

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