Yesterday, New York Times in a lengthy article titled
“iEconomy - In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad”
, attacked Apple for not doing enough to improve living conditions for workers at their suppliers factories.
recounts an incident from May last year where an explosion in Foxconn’s factory killed 2 workers.
“Apple never cared about anything other than increasing product quality and decreasing production cost,”  [..]
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A couple of days ago,
that allowed users to create fake driver’s license on the request of a U.S. Senator. The app which was on the App Store for over two years, could apparently be misused for illegal activities.
According to DriversEd.com, the developers of the app, Apple didn’t contact them even hours after pulling down their app. When finally contacted, Apple cited a section of the 
 review guideline, which read:
Apps must comply with (more…)

Yesterday, Apple pulled Tether.com’s iPhone app -
. iTether allowed users to use their iPhone ’s data connection to surf the internet on a Mac or PC over USB.

Tether has published a post on their blog in a response to Apple ‘s decision to ban their tethering app.
We were not surprised by the ban as Apple has previously banned such applications from the App Store possibly due to pressure from carriers like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint who offer (more…)

that has raised privacy concerns.
Apple has clarified that it is not tracking the location of the iPhone or iPad 3G as reported by Security researchers last week. Apple has also confirmed that it has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.
Apple has answered all the relevant questions regarding the location tracking issue in a Q&A form. So if you were worried about the issue then check the Q&A below:
1. Why is Apple tracking the location (more…)

reported last week by Security Researchers has raised quite a bit of controversy. As reported earlier today,
in South Korea, France, Italy and Germany, US Senators are writing open letters to Apple ‘s CEO Steve Jobs and some have already started suing Apple .
Apple has surprisingly been silent on the issue, which is usually a good time for Steve Jobs to clarify things.
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Could you please explain the necessity of the passive location-tracking (more…)

Google loves to characterize Android as open and iPhone as closed. We see this disingenuous and clouding the difference.
Android is very, very fragmented and becoming more fragmented by the day.
The first thing we think of when we hear open is Windows, which is available on a lot of devices. Unlike Windows, where PCs have the same interface, Android is very fragmented. HTC and Motorola install proprietary user interfaces to differentiate themselves. (more…)

Some of our readers had also reported that their account were hacked and used to buy iPhone apps from the App Store.
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The developer Thuat Nguyen and his apps were removed from the App Store for violating the developer Program License Agreement, including fraudulent purchase patterns.
Developers do not receive any iTunes confidential customer data when an app is downloaded.
If your credit card or iTunes password is stolen and used on iTunes (more…)

elaborating on the reasons why Apple has chosen not to allow Adobe Flash on their platform. The article contains several interesting pointers on why Flash could be an
on mobile devices like the iPhone .
In his letter, Jobs had pointed out that Flash was a proprietary technology that scores low on reliability and security. The Apple CEO had also pointed out Flash's growing irrelevance in the modern era dominated by touch screen devices and open (more…)

So what does Adobe think of Steve Jobs' opinion? In an interview to the
, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has reiterated his earlier stand that Apple 's decision to not allow Flash on the iPhone OS is more of a business decision than a technology one. He further questions Jobs' assertions that Flash is a dying technology.
” that Apple has chosen to call Flash a closed platform. He cited the release of the latest Creative Suite software as (more…)

Hi Steve,
Lots of people are pissed off at Apple ’s mandate that applications be “originally written” in C/C++/Objective-C. If you go, for example, to the Hacker News homepage right now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/

You’ll see that most of the front page stories about this new restriction, with #1 being: “Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad” with (currently) 243 upvotes. The top 5 stories are all negative reactions to the TOS, and there (more…)