iPhone Dev Team cancels pwnage, sells IP
Posted Mar 31st 2008 7:30PM by Erica Sadun
Filed under: iPhone
This posting on iphone-dev.org states that the iPhone dev team has withdrawn their pwnage tool and sold all their intellectual property rights to an unnamed third party.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.
Tags: pwnage
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
3-31-2008 @ 7:37PM
Christian A. Str?n said...
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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3-31-2008 @ 7:38PM
Christian A. Str?n said...
Nevermind that one. :P
3-31-2008 @ 7:38PM
Christian A. Str?n said...
Not April Fools… Riiiight…
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3-31-2008 @ 7:38PM
iConiC said...
say it isn't so!
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3-31-2008 @ 7:39PM
Waldo said...
Money grabbing pricks.
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3-31-2008 @ 7:39PM
Anonymous said...
It's a joke. I got proof from someone high up in the dev team. Thank goodness :)
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3-31-2008 @ 7:48PM
Drew Green said...
Please provide that proof, then.
3-31-2008 @ 7:40PM
lolgamoff said...
I wonder how much they sold out for?
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3-31-2008 @ 7:41PM
Chris said...
"I'm assured this is real and not an April's Fools joke."
Uh huh.
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3-31-2008 @ 7:46PM
JKT said...
Until the "buyer" is revealed, it's an April Fool's joke.
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3-31-2008 @ 7:50PM
sigmasigma said...
I cant believe they sold out. We should have known it was comming
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3-31-2008 @ 7:51PM
Bryan said...
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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3-31-2008 @ 8:02PM
Clay Zamperini said...
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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3-31-2008 @ 8:05PM
Drew Green said...
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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3-31-2008 @ 8:10PM
Mtirv said...
April fools jokes are always better when they aren't actually on April 1.
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3-31-2008 @ 8:12PM
Rubbinz said...
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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3-31-2008 @ 8:34PM
Caitlin said...
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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3-31-2008 @ 9:24PM
JGO said...
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.
3-31-2008 @ 9:44PM
William Beem said...
Translation: Apple couldn't stop them, so it paid them off to quit.
Either way, who cares?
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3-31-2008 @ 9:53PM
Evan said...
Haha, Aren't you people aware of the DATE?!
http://evansnyder.com
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