Monday, August 23, 2010

New patent application could allow Apple to brick jailbroken iPhones

By Jason D. O'Grady | August 23, 2010, 3:51pm PDT

ZDNet’s own Sam Diaz posted a blog about a troubling application published by Apple via the U.S. Patent and Trade Office. A CNET post unearthed a doozy of a patent that could allow Apple to restrict the functions of devices that have been jailbroken or unlocked.