Thread: Apple iOS auto-lock iOS patent application could monitor iPhone jailbreak/unlocking
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j.s is offline j.s
2010-08-21 , 18:20
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
I don't see the point of people here shouting out loud about whatever Apple is doing in their own garden. Sort of like picket fencing outside a loud club.
Because it might encourage Nokia to copycat and go further than their already egregious SMS of the n900 phone number and other information to Nokia with the PR1.2 update.

Originally Posted by ysss View Post
The more interesting question to me is that.. would this patent obstruct other (open/oss) implementation of security app that involves taking pictures of the supposed perp and sending it home (to us)?
Certainly patenting obvious and widely publicly discussed ideas is a concern. The discussions on this board may be after the patent date, but the discussions on openmoko lists (no camera though) are before the patent date.
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