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[tmoynihan]

iPint is suddenly missing from the iTunes App Store and my iPhone, with no explanation or warning from Apple.

[rogerhk]

Dear Brennon Slattery, PC World Blogger:
Apple does NOT "yield" ultimate control. That would mean -- in the English language -- that Apple GAVE UP ultimate control. Think: yield the right of way. "To give way; to allow another to pass first. . . To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate."
Or, were you purposely saying Apple "surrendered" ultimate control?
Or maybe, just maybe, you meant "Apple WIELDS ultimate control."
Next time, Brennon, remember the rule for all seventh grade authors -- look up the really big words before you use them.

[schoolteacher08]

i'm thinking the guy meant to say apple "wields" control. the words rhyme, but they have opposite meanings. i was really confused as i started reading the article because as you point out, the author blew his lead...

[buckwalter]

what are you guys talking about?

[buzz19]

Well, URL while poking around inside the iPhone 2.0 software that downloads a list of “malicious” applications every so often to the iPhon.

[hypermark]

Personally, I think that this is Apple's version of Border Control for access to the iPhone Universe.
As I believe that governance is part of the equation, I say hurrah!
In fact, I just posted on this aspect of the topic:
iPhone Universe: Network Borders, Kill Switches and The Core Location
http://thenetworkgar...e-universe.html
Check it out if interested.
Cheers,
Mark

[rogerhk]

The "yield" vs "wield" thing has been fixed. Thank you Brennon.

[lithium451]

If this is true I guess the rumored health problem that Jobs has must be a brain tumor as his usual high level of paranoia appears to have been kicked up to Nixonian or Howard Hughes levels.