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iPhone Dev Team cancels pwnage, sells IP
This posting on iphone-dev.org states that the iPhone dev team has withdrawn their pwnage tool and sold all their intellectual property rights to an unnamed third party. No further details are available about the settlement and I'm assured this is real and not an April's Fools joke. Update: I am also assured by other parties that this is fake and is an April's Fools joke. Which is real? I have no idea.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
Update 2: Yeah, apparently just a April Fools joke. Apologies to all our readers.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Anonymous said 7:39PM on 3-31-2008
It's a joke. I got proof from someone high up in the dev team. Thank goodness :)
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Drew Green said 7:48PM on 3-31-2008
Please provide that proof, then.
Christian A. Str?n said 7:37PM on 3-31-2008
I'd be very surprised if this hasn't changed within the summer. The iPhone is constantly gaining ground, and pretty much everyone that has one uses the browser.
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Christian A. Str?n said 7:38PM on 3-31-2008
Nevermind that one. :P
iConiC said 7:38PM on 3-31-2008
say it isn't so!
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Christian A. Str?n said 7:38PM on 3-31-2008
Not April Fools… Riiiight…
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Waldo said 7:39PM on 3-31-2008
Money grabbing pricks.
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lolgamoff said 7:40PM on 3-31-2008
I wonder how much they sold out for?
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Chris said 7:41PM on 3-31-2008
"I'm assured this is real and not an April's Fools joke."
Uh huh.
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JKT said 7:46PM on 3-31-2008
Until the "buyer" is revealed, it's an April Fool's joke.
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sigmasigma said 7:50PM on 3-31-2008
I cant believe they sold out. We should have known it was comming
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Bryan said 7:51PM on 3-31-2008
Its April Fools, it is to conicidental that this lands not 5 hours from April 1st, nothing on the internet can be taken seriously in the next 24-48 hours
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Clay Zamperini said 8:02PM on 3-31-2008
If it's not an April Fools joke, I wonder if the buyer could be Apple?
That would make sense for Apple to offer a tempting sum to avoid the thorn in their side that this technology could bring.
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Drew Green said 8:05PM on 3-31-2008
Since all of the Weblogs Inc blogs that reported this story updated their posts to say that it IS only an April fool's prank, would someone please tell how they found this out
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Jason Hung said 11:25PM on 3-31-2008
You guys got pwned :P
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Mtirv said 8:10PM on 3-31-2008
April fools jokes are always better when they aren't actually on April 1.
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Rubbinz said 8:12PM on 3-31-2008
I can't believe people keep falling for and posting this kind of crud year after year. For future reference save yourself the embarrassment of gullibility and simply stop posting anything from Noon March 31st - Noon April 2nd.
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Caitlin said 8:34PM on 3-31-2008
This is kinda off topic, but did anyone notice that if you were viewing the main text message screen, a side swipe will toggle the delete option on?
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JGO said 9:24PM on 3-31-2008
Yeah, that's been there for quite a while. I believe (though I might be wrong) that there is even an iPhone tutorial video on the Apple website that talks about this feature.
William Beem said 9:44PM on 3-31-2008
Translation: Apple couldn't stop them, so it paid them off to quit.
Either way, who cares?
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