Steve Jobs: Your iPhone doesn't belong to you

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/navigating-to-nowhere-on-the-iphone
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Steve Jobs undercut what was a promising business move for Mexens
Technologies <http://www.navizon.com/> , a New York firm that introduced a
navigation software program for the iPhone nine days ago. The company's
Navizon software uses signals from WiFi and cellular to determine the
phone's location, simulating what a Global Positioning System would do. 

Since then, the free trial version of the iPhone software has been
downloaded 80,000 times, said Cyril Houri, Mexens's chief executive. 

Now, customers who upgrade to the latest version of Apple's iPhone firmware
find that Navizon, and other non-Apple applications, simply won't work any
more, Mr. Houri said. 

He has found that phones with third party applications have not been
disabled, unless they have also been unlocked to work on cellular carriers
other than AT&T. 

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