Readers of FOI may recall the introduction’s focus on the iPhone as the book’s first example of a tethered appliance.  The release of Android was viewed with some excitement as a challenge to Apple, in more ways than one. Google, and later the Open Handset Alliance, have touted Android as an open source alternative to […]

After praising the iPhone as wholesome as warm bread, Colbert takes to task the iPhone for its “kill switch” (“It actually kills you!”).  In the meantime, Gizmodo reports that there’s a “BossPrefs” app to disable it, joining the more labor intensive method of tricking the iPhone into thinking that the Apple update server is found […]