Filed under: iTS, Hacks, iPhone
iPhone references in updated iTunes Protocol
Evan DiBiase has done a bit more detective work after having found YouTube strings in Apple's iTunes protocol. Now he's uncovered references to the iPhone in Apple's secureBag, specifically references to an iPhone Registration page. Unfortunately the page, which uses secure https, doesn't seem to work as yet. And the other references in storeBag and secureBag produce unhelpful responses such as the one shown here.
Just for the sake of completion, I also searched through the strings in iTunes 7.2 but found nothing new to report.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
frou said 12:15PM on 6-16-2007
i went into itunes and found a music store, but i didnt have a account so i couldn't buy music.
please erica, content, post content!
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John from Buffalo said 12:23PM on 6-16-2007
The iPhone is irrelevant already. Might as well call the iNewton II
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feemo said 1:02PM on 6-16-2007
Peter Roziak has done detective work and found out that the domain www.appleappleapple.com is not registered.
Just for the sake of completion, I also checked the domains www.appleappleappleapple.com and www.appleappleappleappleapple.com, but found nothing new to report.
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El in AZ said 2:07PM on 6-16-2007
I used to always think you guys were dicks for beating up on Erica, but honey... C'mon...
This is about the tenth eye-roller in a row from you.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
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Alan said 2:09PM on 6-16-2007
Waste of bandwidth.
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Duscrom said 2:48PM on 6-16-2007
Wait, so you mean, that iTunes may be compatible with the iPhone? Dude, sweet.. i wonder if i can sync my songs to it like it was some sorta, weird, touch-screen iPod. God, it's almost like Apple's been planning the iPhone all along.
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Slevin said 2:49PM on 6-16-2007
Erica is a shrill, she rarely has anything news worthy to report. Erica I know your intentions are good and you have to earn a living but you've lost all credibility please sit down with the TUAW (or iChat) management and map out a field of stories you can blog about, maybe hidden tips and tricks or actual news not "hey apple did this but its not connected to anything so there isn't anything to report but I want to up my post count."
Please post something meaningful TUAW used to be quaility but within the past few months its becoming more like Spymac.
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Ronan said 3:27PM on 6-16-2007
Guys, you're wasting your time asking for anybody at TUAW to listen - readers have been complaining about this blogger's posts since she started, but no-one on the site seems to give a sh!t.
Victor Agreda, Jr., one of the Associate Producers at Weblogs Inc., seems to rate her content, so I guess that's all there is to it.
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derek said 4:13PM on 6-16-2007
WOAH!!!!!!! THE IPHONE IS GONNA BE IN ITUNES?!?!??!?!?!
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Dave said 4:36PM on 6-16-2007
Hey guys, I heard the Interweb is online!
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Marco said 4:44PM on 6-16-2007
Well there are many useless news in the world. Nobody forces us to read or listen to them. Why this complaining? I can't barely understand that.
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Lock said 5:43PM on 6-16-2007
useless news? maybe. useless comments? surely.
if you don't like a news just pass over it but don't blame ppl spending time to write on these pages.
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basscadet said 6:41PM on 6-16-2007
I have to agree that when there's nothing to report -> don't report how silent it is. There's a gazillion mac related things one can dig up if they have the time. And having RSS input from 10 sites can clutter my ticker bar quite fast if every one of them serves "news" just for the sake of posting...
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Marco said 7:20PM on 6-16-2007
Well, it's in the nature of our time periode, the periode of industrialisation and digitalisation, that many goods are made, that are actually rubbish, from the very beginning. Overcome this periode and the rest will overcome itself. It's a fight against windmills, otherwise. Read John Ruskin.
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anon said 3:27AM on 6-17-2007
Well, the secureBag part was new to me. So some content.
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VanillaSpice said 8:05PM on 6-17-2007
And good riddance to you, Ike. Can you take the rest of the bleating idiots with you, please?
It doesn't cost anyone a cent to view these pages, so your right to make unnecessary, snide and pointless attacks on authors is non-existent.
Stop telling other people what they should consider to be news and what they should consider to be worthy. It is their right to decide for themselves what they are interested in. If JUST ONE person reads this and finds it interesting, then that completely overrides any claim that it shouldn't have been written.
Just because YOU didn't want to read this doesn't many no-one wants to read it. Get off your high horses, the internet and this blog are for everyone, not just you.
There are millions of people using the internet, can you imagine what it would be like if we all stopped at every page we didn't like, and wrote, "I didn't like this" at the bottom? How messed-up would that be?
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VanillaSpice said 2:03AM on 6-18-2007
14 out of 18 does not equal 99%, Chun Li, it equals 77.77% and anyway, that percentage (of comments that are negative) is much much lower on Erica's other posts.
So you are obviously wrong about the "not ONE person has found it interesting" thing, and you would have been wrong even at 99% - do you understand percentages? 99% is not 100% !
I have no idea what you mean when you say that we already do stop at every page on the internet that we don't like and add a negative comment - what are you talking about? Most pages do not have a method for adding comments, so most pages don't have them, so you're wrong to say that we already do comment on every page we don't like.
But more than that, we don't stop at every page we don't like that has commenting, and negatively comment. At least, I don't, and people who do that are generally thought of as trolls, and are not welcome.
In any case, the "add comment" button does not grant you the right to do anything you want. Yes, sites need feedback to improve, but useless sniping comments are not feedback, they are not constructive criticism.
Do you think the "add comment" button gives you the right to personally attack and insult the author? Do you think the "add comment" button gives you the right to make exactly the same criticism of TUAW that you've made in dozens of other comments?
Just because you're encouraged to "add your opinions" doesn't actually mean that you're allowed to do so rudely, repeatedly, unnecessarily, or vexatiously.
As to why I am criticising the haters, that is easy. They are being rude and snide and unhelpful, and that is what I am criticising. If they were offering constructive criticism, I'd have nothing to say against them.
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frou said 1:48AM on 6-19-2007
erica, why would you delete chunli's posts?
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VanillaSpice said 7:43PM on 6-27-2007
Such a shame that so many were so quick to criticise ...
After all, this WAS an early giveaway about the nature of the iPhone registration/activation procedure, something that was debated right up until the procedure was publicly announced.
If only people had recognised it as such, instead of mistaking this as being nothing.
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