iPhone: Too high a price to pay?

The arrival of the iPhone could signal the beginning of the end for consumer choice. Now that the marketing blitz and customer hype about the Apple iPhone are reverting back to more realistic levels there comes some not entirely unexpected news...

yes the Apple iPhone has been hacked, as reported in the press. Word of this hack came less than 30 days after launch.That the hack occurred is certainly no surprise. That it occurred so soon after its launch is also no major shock. But let's look beyond that single incident to larger issues on the horizon. Does the iPhone hack portend that the long-anticipated assault on the security of mobile phones has arrived? Yes and no. No, because there has been some, though not a lot of, malware "available" for mobile phones for almost three years (for example Cabir variants). Yes, ...
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