We allow people at work to use their own iPhone for company email, but they
have to sign an agreement that if they leave the company we will remotely
wipe the data off their phone. Same for Blackberry. I think all the
manufacturers recognise that without such a possibility they exclude
themselves from corporate sales.
Jez
On 22 July 2011 17:13, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A little more imagination here, Ed. I have no notion of the things that
> Ken says are buried in user agreements or that Apple would act on them
> even if the agreement is as he says it is. However, Apple owns the OS
> and the updates to the OS. They could at any time install a Trojan
> horse. In fact they could have already done so long ago. You would
> never know it. In fact, as a former OS development manager, I would
> assert that it could be done without the knowledge of 99% of their own
> OS developers.
>
> I believe that such would likely be detrimental to Apple's business in
> the longer term but "how would they?" is an extremely easy question to
> answer. "Would they?" is another question entirely. I have no answer
> to that one.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 7/22/2011 10:03 AM, Sawyer, Edward wrote:
> >
> >> And speaking of bricks, the user-agreement for the iPad is very nasty.
> >> The upshot is that Apple can turn your iPad into a brick for any
> >> reason at any time without any user recourse.
> >
> > Please. As if. Not even possible, if they wanted to.
> >
> >> They can even deactive paid apps at
> >> their will.
> >
> > The most they can do is take an app out of the store so you can't buy it
> > anymore. They can't take it off the iPad. How would they? Think about
> it.
> >
> > -Ed
> >
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