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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tpmeredith" data-source="post: 7228235" data-attributes="member: 625173">I'm inclined to agree with ya, I love the 600hp cts-v coupe, it's ridiculous and looks awesome, too bad I probably wont be able to afford it for 10 years lol.That and the whole applegate antenna fiasco was ridiculous regarding the iphone 4g. They used their current business model to make them a big-game player, now they are going to need to adapt to a business model to stay there and possibly grow more or else they run the risk of becoming the companies they've hated on for so long now. They get oodles of free press from the press, and get offended when they have a legitimate screwup and they get called out on it. They've put themselves in a dangerous situation similar to being a snitch in prison. People (other tech companies) are waiting for them to screw up so they can prison-yard shank their *** in the media.My current phone is a blackberry, however I deleted my facebook a few months ago (shocker I know, no facebook?) and I hate using email on phones as it annoys the **** out of me, so I'm thinking my next phone will be a nice basic phone with music/bluetooth capabilities that doesn't require a data plan.I'll admit though, there are some neat things I've seen people do with iphones and Ipad's. A guy I used to work with had an Ipad and an Iphone and he jailbroke both and got a supermario app for his ipad that would turn his iphone into a controller and make the ipad the screen, and allowed for 2 players too.Honestly, I predict a couple things. I think mobile is going to get bigger and bigger, obviously. However, people don't realize viruses are going to get very real for smartphones and the mobile community as it get's bigger and bigger and people use the internet more and more on them. When this happens I think apple is going to get hit really fast in the next few years as they've never had to deal with this issue as much in the past due to lower market shares. (Some argue it's because of the unix background, I argue because of market share) Since they have a formidable market in the mobile sector I think it will be a real issue. Smartphones are not secure at all and you can look at how easy it was/is for people to jailbreak their Iphones as an example.The old (may still work don't think it does) jailbreak for Iphones was going to jailbreakme.com, and you would "Slide here to jailbreak your phone", that simple. Used an exploit with adobe PDF's to inject code into the phone. Now they may have used it nicely, but imagine if an exploit like that got into the hands of someone who had ill-purposes?</blockquote>

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