Yes, it's possible to wipe the information from my iPhone, but I have to agree
to it. In fact it's a security feature (make of that what you will).
I should have said that this thread was going a little OTT. As Chuck said, it
would be detrimental to Apple's business; or in other words, a rather daft idea.
Chris
On 22 Jul 2011, at 17:25, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> 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.
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