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engadget.com - 3/28/2009

Apple uses a jailbroken iPhone in patent application

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Uh oh Apple -- it looks like even your attorneys are dirty, thieving jailbreakers . Tipster a|e§ was poring through that iPhone biometric security patent application we posted earlier and noticed that the images show a jailbroken phone, complete with Installer.app, SMBPrefs, and the ...

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The Apple Core:  Apple likes jailbroken iPhones too

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Shot of Jailbroken iPhone Sneaks Into Apple Patent Application [Apple]
Gizmodo — ... Let's see here, we've got a custom wallpaper, that's not allowed. We've got the Installer and SMBPrefs apps, you're not going to find either of those in the Officially Apple-Controlled Apple-Permitted App Store By Apple. It's pretty obvious, really, and somebody had to sit down and sketch out the wallpaper and those apps, so this qualifies as an uncharacteristically sloppy slip from Apple. [Engadget] ...

Jailbroken iPhone makes its way into iPhone patent application
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... This one is kinda funny though.  Apple's recent application for biometric security  on iPhones had the following image (Via Engadget): ...

Apple likes jailbroken iPhones too
The Apple Core — ... D. O'Grady Somebody in Cupertino’s in a lot of hot water Monday morning. In fact, they might as well not even show up to work tomorrow. Apparently some genius at Apple submitted a patent application for iPhone biometric security to the USPTO with evidence of jailbreaking all over it. Exhibit 500C (at right) clearly shows icons for Installer.app and SMBPrefs (which are only available on JB’d iPhones) and the iWood Realize theme from the iSpazio repository reports Engadget . [image] The gaff is particularly embarrassing because just last month ...