1. 'hacker' writes paid for application, gets said app accepted to the market.
2. 'hacker' then commands his droves of exploited iDevices to purchase said app.
3. 'hacker' profits.

Same Dale Kimball?
A shame he did not have a sudden break out of common sense during the SCO fiasco...

I called in to protest and had 2 separate people tell me that this is not going to apply to uverse.
Whether or not that is true has yet to be seen.

I have not been presented with any evidence that this is the case but they seem to be good at lying about it at the retention level.

"...where unsuspecting or careless Android smartphones find it, download it and install it."

You mean ..' unsuspecting or careless USERS find it'
The phone itself is not reaching out to download it, the user is doing it.

And will happen again.

They tried once before and the judge blew their ship out of the water.
What makes their chances any better this time?

And your right, the government won't do anything about it.
What bothers me about this is that the government is run by people, and it's these people that won't do anything.

It's as if they get a rise out of doing it OR they are content because it's someone else and not them.

And I have sent tens of thousands of texts using it.
It's a big issue because APPLEGADGET is saying it is.

Seriously.. if they don't want to sell something they don't have to sell it.
We don't 'make' stores carry product do we?
If they don't sell the product you want then buy it from someone that does!

Some of us would have NEVER KNOWN about this if they did nothing.
This crap spreads a lot slower if they leave it alone.
The problem with the internet is once you post it.. it's there forever.
Drawing attention to it makes it a LOT worse.
Now there are torrents being made and mirroring is being done so any chance in hell of it being removed or kept quiet just went to -zero-

How many more years will it take before these corporate idiots realize that once it hits the net it's out there?

I doubt that.
Something like 70+ percent of iPhone4s sold were to existing users.
The iPhone market is pretty close to dried up.
Everyone that wanted one has gotten one by now.

Then you have the people that would jump ship off of AT&Ts crappy network to Verizon.
Those would likely be a lot of existing users.
Apple won't be gaining many new users but shuffling its existing users.

In the US the one carrier option probably did not hurt them very much, everyone that I know with one is actually thinking about jumping ship even if
it comes to Verizon citing the fact that it's 'boring' to them now.
iGadgets are driven by cliques and the desire for an image, and that audience is starting to fade away.
I don't see the kids at the bus stop with white earbuds anymore holding iPods - I am seeing kids with Droids, Zunes and Sansas.
There still are some with iPods but not as many as I used to see.
It's appeal is starting to fade away because in the end people like choice.
The only thing iWidgets have going for them is that on day 400 they behave like they did on day 1... unless Apple manages to botch updates

Hell, even the women I work with jumped off iPhones to Droids - that to me was a sign that things are shifting.
Eventually, Android will be dropped for the next best thing... and I hope that all of this competition leads to greater things down the line
because consumers will all benefit.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I think he wants to control as much as he can before he leaves.

The problem is: people will let him...

I called them out for it and it fell on deaf ears.
It's not their bandwidth so they don't really care.
They are using Pando Media Booster... and it's so badly set up that it takes 4 times as long to download the game
because they saturate the upstream, causing issues.

In short, these game houses don't care because it's a reduced cost to them.

all over the world?
Why aren't people voting these assholes out or taking BACK their countries?

I don't get it.... I must be from a different mold.

I load sites with flash every day and over 3G without issue.
I actually watch flash stuff without issue over 3G.

Am I just lucky or is the test flawed?
I also use it on a Nexus one.

I probably should have made this more clear.
When I say it lacks filters I mean search filters.
I don't want to see the apps that have been rated into hell itself.
I would like to be able to filter apps with say, less than 3 star rating.