Macworld: News: Hackers can’t wait for iPhone
“If it’s really going to run OS X, [the iPhone] will bring certain security implications, such as potential misuses of wireless connectivity facilities, [and] deployment of malware in a larger scale,” the hacker known as LMH wrote in an e-mail. He declined to provide his real name.
In typical Apple fashion, the tech pundits are pronouncing the iPod dead for its lack of features that no one wants, or cares about. Here is one take, by the in>famous John C. Dvorak:
the iPhone which doesn’t look, I mean to me, I’m looking at this thing and I think it’s kind of trending against, you know, what’s really going, what people are really liking on, in these phones nowadays, which are those little keypads. I mean, the Blackjack from Samsung, the Blackberry, obviously, you know kind of pushes this thing, the Palm, all these… And I guess some of these stocks went down on the Apple announcement, thinking that Apple could do no wrong, but I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it.
They were wrong before, especially him, about the iPod, about the iMac, and pretty much about Apple in general. So that is boring. The interesting part of this is the hacking aspect.
- What is the CPU (edit:John Gruber thinks it is an ARM processor
- What is the OS (how much can be taken out before you can’t really call it OS X)
- …and all teh little things that go along with it…will it do 802.1x security
- java (seems reasonable)
- flash (that may be impossible for now unless we get a flash lite (no pun)
- battery life with wi-fi, without wi-fi?
- What API’s?
- are widgets applications?
- Bootloader? Firmware?
- SIM access?
- Is it unlockable?
- battery access/life?
There are many, many more questions that will go unanswered for months to come, unless more information is gleaned from the FCC website. In the meantime, I guess we will have to wait it out, and of course speculate some more.
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