Totally awesome...
A godphone tax for watching streaming video, what's not to like about it?
The reason why you found an enormous but unexpected iPhone data-connection charge on your phone bill may have been discovered in Estonia. From Cult of Mac comes word that Estonian blogger Oliver K. has discovered a bug in Safari for iPhone that will leave open a Motion JPEG video stream even if you close the Safari app. The …
Is Safari (and therefore Apple) liable for your additional data charges as it failed to cut the connection despite leading the user to believe they had?
Surely it is a clear failure of the software.
Now about that bit in all EULAs that says software makers are liable for nothing even if you die based on use of their software.
Hmm... i can hear lawyers rubbing their hands at this one!
OK, maybe slightly off topic, but if you want to connect to web cams from your iPhone, you should check out Live Cams by Barry Egerter. (I have no affiliation - its free). I suspect this one will close the streams properly :) Some fantastic pre-configured cams, but you can connect to any cam if you know the IP, port and user credentials.
Perhaps El Reg can do a review, and publish a web cam in Reg Central for us all to see them busy at work.
Apple users might actually want roaming and all the goodies that their iPhone and service plan promise.
They might also want to control their own iPhone.
I'm an apple hater (because they hate me and all their customers) but I admire their cunning getting revenue (I believe they revenue split with the telco) behind the users back after the purchase.
Sam