A "friend" of the Mac|Life staff decided to bite the bullet and install the iPhone OS 3.0 Monday after a developer uploaded it to a file sharing site. While being reckless with his iPhone, the person is also a bit paranoid, and decided not to partake in the app updates that made themselves available.
The "friend" knows that his iTunes account is used to download updates, and he wasn't too keen on letting Apple know what he did. That lasted a whole 24-hours.
Then yesterday he saw that Find My iPhone was live. Surely he could wait until Wednesday to test the service.
Nope.
Today he set up his iPhone with MobileMe and sent it a message and tracked it using Find My iPhone. Very slick and exciting. He imagined a world where he could toss his iPhone in the back of bad guy's cars and track their movements like Spiderman.
Ten minutes after he sent his iPhone with iPhone OS 3.0 a message via Find My iPhone, our "friend" received the following email from Apple:
Coincidence? Or, friendly reminder to our "friend" that while he is a member of the Developer Connection, he's not a member of the iPhone Developer Program and therefore shouldn't have iPhone OS 3.0 on his iPhone.
Either way, nothing has happened to his account and he still has access to Find My iPhone. He just wanted us to remind everyone that Apple knows what were all up too.
Like we said, it could just be a coincidence and or friend is a bit paranoid. Has anyone else that's updated their iPhone to OS 3.0 and used Find My iPhone experienced a similar email from Apple?
wnaylor
June 14, 2009 at 6:45pm
WehavebeenhearingrumorsthatAppleisworkingonatablet. WehavealsoseenpatentsbyAppleforsomethingthatcouldbearemotecontrol(wireless).CoulditbepossiblethatpartofthefunctionofaAppletabletisthatofaremotecontrolwhichcouldworkwiththeATVmakingitagameconsole.Youwouldusethetabletastheremotetoplaythegames.Justanidea.Whatdoyouthink?
Numbuh One
June 12, 2009 at 10:05am
or you can tell your friend that several black turtle-necked, blue jeans wearing Fake Steves will soon arrive at his house, take his iPhone, and replace it with a Palm Pre.
jguzicki
June 11, 2009 at 9:49pm
i got it too. & i'm an iphone developer. tell your friend to chill. lol.
LeftClicker
June 11, 2009 at 2:43pm
I got the same email (I'm a free online iPhone developer) and I don't use 3.0 illegally.
LeftClicker
maclover
June 11, 2009 at 2:45pm
No, I got it too and I have no affiliation with the iPhone 3.0 software stuff (actually I am part of the Developer site). I think it is just a general email sent out by Apple to the dev community.
