It seems like Apple just has the ability to turn off a program *if they need to*. I think it's smart of them to build that in, there's nothing inherently evil about it. It's not like you're adding programs to your iPhone directly from a computer. Everything comes through Apple, meaning they're reponsible for everything that gets put onto your phone (and I don't mean legally, just in the eyes of its users and the public/press), and if something goes wrong, like a virus slips through one of their programs, they're able to do something about it for everyone. If there was something bad in one of the programs from the App Store and Apple couldn't do anything about it, then people would just as easily cry foul.
Ha Ha, It seems you are a Apple fan who is blind, like many out there. If Microsoft Windows did this, you would probably throw a fit and scream out FOUL PLAY! and illegal! Invasion of Privacy! But since it’s Apple doing this you have no problem with it? Funny how that works....
Why don't you let Apple put a chip in your head and tell you what you are allowed and not allowed to eat. Because if you eat something bad then Apple would just tell you to spit it out and there is nothing wrong with that... right?
If you purchase the Iphone you should have the right to do whatever you want on it, except of course the obvious copy right issues. But if you buy it and you choose to step on it and scratch it on the floor it's your choice and your risk. Just the same works with the software. The intellectual rights belong to Apple but the device is yours. Whatever you do to it is your choice because at the end of the day, if it breaks while installing "illegal" or personal software and your phone dies, it's your own fault and there is nothing you can do about it. Apple will be happy in fact because you can waste more money on them! BUT if your software works then Apple won't have it because they didn't get a piece of that pie.
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It seems like Apple just has the ability to turn off a program *if they need to*. I think it's smart of them to build that in, there's nothing inherently evil about it. It's not like you're adding programs to your iPhone directly from a computer. Everything comes through Apple, meaning they're reponsible for everything that gets put onto your phone (and I don't mean legally, just in the eyes of its users and the public/press), and if something goes wrong, like a virus slips through one of their programs, they're able to do something about it for everyone. If there was something bad in one of the programs from the App Store and Apple couldn't do anything about it, then people would just as easily cry foul.
Ha Ha, It seems you are a Apple fan who is blind, like many out there. If Microsoft Windows did this, you would probably throw a fit and scream out FOUL PLAY! and illegal! Invasion of Privacy! But since it’s Apple doing this you have no problem with it? Funny how that works....
Why don't you let Apple put a chip in your head and tell you what you are allowed and not allowed to eat. Because if you eat something bad then Apple would just tell you to spit it out and there is nothing wrong with that... right?
If you purchase the Iphone you should have the right to do whatever you want on it, except of course the obvious copy right issues. But if you buy it and you choose to step on it and scratch it on the floor it's your choice and your risk. Just the same works with the software. The intellectual rights belong to Apple but the device is yours. Whatever you do to it is your choice because at the end of the day, if it breaks while installing "illegal" or personal software and your phone dies, it's your own fault and there is nothing you can do about it. Apple will be happy in fact because you can waste more money on them! BUT if your software works then Apple won't have it because they didn't get a piece of that pie.
This is a very very slippery slope.
@deeutilize515
Couldn't have said it better myself!