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fastar1 said:
iMessage bug?

http://gizmodo.com/5880593/the-apple-bug-that-let-us-spy-on-a-total-strangers-iphone?popular=true
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[h=1]Apple says there is no iMessage bug, blames issues on Apple Store employee[/h]An apparent discovery of a bug in Apple’s iMessage system was uncovered yesterday by Gizmodo. An Apple store customer was receiving messages intended for an employee after that employee had swapped his SIM into the customer’s phone as a part of the service process.
Now, in a statement given to Jim Dalrymple of The Loop, Apple has stated that there is, in fact, no iMessage bug and the problem was simply caused by a breach in service protocol.
“This was an extremely rare situation that occurred when a retail employee did not follow the correct service procedure and used their personal SIM to help a customer who did not have a working SIM,” Apple representative Natalie Harrison told The Loop. “This resulted in a temporary situation that has since been resolved by the employee.”
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With this statement, Apple is placing the blame directly on the Apple Store employee, intimating that if he had followed procedures properly, this would not have happened.
It has been debated for some time, since a semblance of this issue was discovered by Ars Technica, that your iMessage account was tied to your SIM card. This admission from Apple seems to seal the deal on that point. It also indicates that an iMessage registration can be transferred from one phone to another by swapping SIMs, and can even remain registered to the other phone after the SIM has been removed.
Because the employee used his own personal SIM card to help aid the customer in the quickest fashion possible, the iMessage registration for that SIM was transferred to the customer’s device. Apple says that the technician should have used a SIM provided specifically for troubleshooting procedures instead of his own.
The story at The Loop appears to indicate that a recommended procedure for preventing these issues is to ‘toggle iMessage off and back on‘. Presumably you would do this once your old SIM was back in your phone and that would transfer the registration back to the one tied to your own SIM.
There is also an interesting wrinkle here in that the customer was “using the iPhone without a SIM card,” an unusual state to begin with.
It seems fairly clear that the employee did not follow proper protocol on this issue, as I doubt that any training from Apple would recommend an employee use their own SIM card to complete any kind of service. But the claim that there is no bug is a bit harder to chew.
There still seems to be an issue by which iMessage identities, whether it be a phone number or email address, can get transferred to another phone and stick. The toggling of iMessage off and back on is unlikely to be something that the public commonly knows is recommended, unless they read an article like this one.
It seems that Apple should be able to find a way to ditch the iMessage registration of a device when a new SIM is placed in the phone. This would ensure that there is no issues, even for those who do not know the trick.
And we’re also unconvinced that simply toggling iMessage services of the device off and back on will fix the problem, as earlier reports have indicated that the messages may still be received after a remote wipe of a device.
So, while the issue may not be a bug in the strictest sense, it absolutely could be made clearer that additional steps need to be taken when switching SIM cards. This would ensure that issues don’t crop up when gifting or selling an iMessage-capable device that takes a SIM card.



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Kinda sounds like a bug to me.

If the SIM has to register the phone at all, then shouldn't it de-register whatever previous phone it was used on when it registers on a new one?
 
Who cares. Don't put your SIM in another person's iPhone and nobody will be able to track you.

I'd be VERY weary of doing that. I'm surprised the dumbass employee actually did it.
 
mmmnaked said:
Who cares. Don't put your SIM in another person's iPhone and nobody will be able to track you.

I'd be VERY weary of doing that. I'm surprised the dumbass employee actually did it.
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That's a fair point, and I agree. The real cause for concern is when people have their devices stolen. Some a**hat swipes it and puts in a new SIM, or sells it to someone who pops in a new SIM before wiping the device. Initial cases were found and reported just this way.
 
Had a guy try and sell me an iPhone out of the back of a van on Monday.

If I would have had more time I would have checked one out since im 99% sure he was trying to sell me a fake.
 
I don't think these guys are quite ready to die and roll over quite yet.

2012 will be fun to watch. It seems that so far things are heading in the right direction.....


"RIM hit a milestone in January this year as they reached over 2 billion total downloads with 6 million coming daily. "


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LOL media is so retarded....

Apple uses the same Chinese factories as every other manufacturer of just about every consumer product we buy in North America. :lol: sheep

Foxconn major customers:

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Acer Inc. (Taiwan)[27]
Amazon.com (United States)[28]
Apple Inc. (United States)[29]
ASRock (Taiwan)[citation needed]
Asus (Taiwan)[citation needed]
Barnes & Noble (United States)[citation needed]
Cisco (United States)[30]
Dell (United States)[31]
EVGA Corporation (United States)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)[32]
Intel (United States)[33]
IBM (United States)[citation needed]
Lenovo (China)[citation needed]
Microsoft (United States)[34]
MSI (Taiwan)[citation needed]
Motorola (United States)[31]
Netgear (United States)[citation needed]
Nintendo (Japan)[35]
Nokia (Finland)[29]
Panasonic (Japan)[citation needed]
Samsung (South Korea)[36]
Sharp (Japan)[citation needed]
Sony (Japan)[37]
Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)[38]
Vizio (United States)[39]
 
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What are talking about? It's the Apple users who are protesting, and that's what the media are reporting.
 

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Apple’s blockbuster holiday quarter sent shares to an all-time high of $431 a share, which is enough to close in on a market valuation of $400 billion. However, that was last month. Today,AAPL briefly passed a record $460 billion market cap with new historical stock price high at $493.97 a share. Exxon Mobil Corporation’s [XOM] market valuation is just $402.72 billion.Analysts featured on Bloomberg Television said Apple is an “absolute phenomenon.”
Both Needham and Canaccord raised their price target for Apple shares to $620 and $650, respectively, maintaining a Buy rating on the stock. At the current market cap, Apple weighs more than 10 percent of NASDAQ and has 52 times Research In Motion’s [RIMM] valuation of just $8.45 billion.
Apple’s market capitalization is double the size of IBM and almost double the size of Microsoft[MSFT]. Heck, it is now almost the size of IBM and MSFT combined, and it surpassed the jointGOOG ($198.9 billion) and MSFT ($256.7 billion) market cap. However, some analysts still deem the company’s valuation “tepid.”


Oil services giant Halliburton reportedly ditched BlackBerrys in favor of Apple recently, and replaced about 4,500 company-issued BlackBerry phones with Apple’s smartphone. At the Oct. 4, 2011 iPhone 4S introduction, Apple CEO Tim Cook underscoredthat 93 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are testing or deploying the iPhone. Apple saw record sales of Macs, iPhones and iPads in Q4 2011—partly due to pent-up demand and because the quarter spanned 14 weeks. Pundits expect AAPL to outperform due to an iPad 3 introduction in March, iPhone 5 launch around summer, and iPhone 4S launch in China (also hitting China Telecom this month), including the obligatory seasonal product refreshes. The brave ones are also factoring in the alleged iTV rumored to arrive this or next year.
 
fastar1 said:
What are talking about? It's the Apple users who are protesting, and that's what the media are reporting.
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The media wasn't reporting on the protests initially, they were the ones reporting on "Apple's" Chinese factories having sub-par working conditions, which is what really sparked the 'uprising'... but they're not Apple's factories, they're factories that produce just about EVERYTHING we buy here, including all other electronics.
 
Wow, another reason not to buy apple, that company is getting waaaay too powerful.
 
After more then 3 months with the SGS2, I have to say I am starting to miss my iP4.
Yes there is much more to tweak, but most neat features of Android make an already poor battery life completely unbearable.
With the latest jailbreak tweaks for iP4 (IntelliScreenX and Zephyr) you get notification and multitasking functionality that's unheard of in Android.
I am still using the S2 as my primary phone (with a bigger battery on the way) and holding out my final decision until Samsung releases official ICS build, but so far I think that for my daily use I would get more out of the iPhone4.
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