Posted on 12/23/2015 2:37:21 PM PST by Swordmaker
App pirates on vShare are letting you download free versions of paid iPhone apps.
App pirates are letting you download free versions of paid iPhone apps by taking advantage of a quirk in Apple's iTunes approval process.
The pirated app website, vShare, even works on iPhones that aren't "jailbroken."
Apple goes through great lengths to control which iOS apps are allowed in its iTunes App Store. Traditionally, the only way to install an app from outside the official app store is to jailbreak your iPhone.
But vShare has figured out how to get around that, according to cybersecurity firm Proofpoint and several other researchers contacted by CNNMoney. Proof point researchers gave CNNMoney an exclusive look at research that it will release on Wednesday.
How vShare beats Apple security
Apple lets corporations create their own internal apps for employees. If a company pays $299 per year and joins the Apple Developer Enterprise program, its apps get a special, trusted certificate.
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Likewise my friend, Merry Christmas!
At ebay you have ___Xiaomi 269,277 listings__ item for sale under the name “Xiaomi.” http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Xiaomi&clk_rvr_id=956345309668&mfe=search
You Apple cult bois and toibois are in for a rude Chinese New Year as AAPL tanks another 50% and has you buffoons breaking into a cold sweat...... then running for the exits.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Xiaomi&clk_rvr_id=956345309668&mfe=search
XIAOMI killing it on ebay this Christmas. No wonder Tim Kook is in a deep funk. Sword___please send him a gay issues oriented shrink to see him through the Yuletide season
WOW! The Baron is telling the truth for a change. . . but mis-interpreting it as usual. There are so many listings because . . . Xiaomi devices's and accessories simply are not selling in the USA. They are not even a blip on any chart of popular cellular phones in the US.
In the meantime, almost every iPhone that gets listed on eBay is grabbed up quickly.
SWORDClown! The Xiaomi fones/tablets I see on ebay are all sent from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China due to all the bllsht anti-competitive laws Apple losers have gotten imposed here (USA)
In a free market in America the Xiaomi fones/tablets would beat Apple like a red haired stepchild.
Washington State AG sues major tech support provider alleging deceptive scam
KOMO News ^ | December 16th 2015 | Connie Thompson
Posted on 12/24/2015, 3:05:18 PM by KeyLargo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3376462/posts
Those laws are called the Constitution. Xiaomi does not pay a single license fee for any of the patents or copyrights they use in their phones or other products they sell. If you buy one of their THEFT PHONES, the US Customs department will seize it when it comes into the USA, the same reason XIAOMI phones cannot be sold in India. . . failure to comply with civilized conduct and license the Intellectual Property they use to manufacture their products as EVERY OTHER MAJOR (and minor) PHONE MAKER DOES, using FRAND (Fair Reasonable, And Non-Discriminatory) licensing rates and rules. That is one of the ways that Xiaomi undercuts all the competition in its pricing. . . they don't have to pay their way for licensing what they STEAL.
They are also legally prohibited from importing their products in Japan, Australia, Europe, Canada, and any place else that respects the rule of LAW. ,p> You, obviously don't respect the rule of law, Baron Dennis Muchausen. That makes you for certain not a conservative. You are the very essence of a Liberal know-nothing.
Merry Christmas and nice try GrandSWORDBuffoon but I see zero internet chatter from anyone in the USA about getting their Xiaomi phone seized by US Customs _______________ It just ain’t happening.
I did see a few references to problems bringing Xiaomi phones into India and this is all you saw. Your muddled mind ran with these factoids, you extrapolated that the same must be going on here too. I see zero evidence of ebay buyers being pissed off that their Xiaomi phone was confiscated by US Customs
LESSON- Haste makes waste!
LESSON #2 -— Be careful trying to run your Apple bluster past me.
Xiaomi lands in the U.S. with a considerable splash
John Shinal____February 17, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO — In a third-floor meeting room of the W Hotel here, the mobile Internet company Xiaomi landed in the U.S. with a noticeable splash.
One block from the sprawling Moscone Center, the auditorium that’s hosted many triumphant announcements from Apple, the upstart mobile device and services company from China put on a scaled-down version of the type of product event Steve Jobs would have loved (if not for its several technical glitches).
Pumped up with slick, youthful videos and demonstrating a unified design of hardware and software, Xiaomi executives at the company’s first big U.S. press event touted products they argued are among the most innovative in the market.
One advance is in their use of flexible glass, which allows for a bigger screen in a slightly smaller and comparably lighter device.
Other Xiaomi features touted were courtesy of the user interface of its mobile operating system, MIUI, pronounced “mee-YOU-we” — refreshed weekly by customer-driven updates.
All this seems to be working pretty well, as Xiaomi (pronounced ZHAO-me) is selling “6 to 7 million phones a month,” said its president, Bin Lin, during a 75-minute presentation Thursday.
It sold 61 million last year, said Lin.
The company raised a private funding round late last year that reportedly valued it at close to $50 billion.
Xiaomi gets nearly all of its revenue from sales of its own phones, TVs and other electronics on its global website, Lin said, adding in a later question-and-answer session that “hardware is most of revenues.”
The Beijing-based company’s products are being sold in China and eight other countries, and Xiaomi is about to open for business in Brazil, says Lin.
Some big U.S. tech investors are already starting to salivate over the possibility Xiaomi could execute a huge, Alibaba-like public offering of shares here.
READY TO ENTER U.S.
While Lin deflected talk of an IPO, Xiaomi did say it would enter the U.S. market in a few months, albeit in a limited way.
Because it lacks partnerships with any of the big U.S. wireless operators, the company won’t be selling its Android-based smartphones — among the most popular in China — here anytime soon.
It will, however, begin selling the 4K TVs, routers, headphones, stuffed animals, air purifiers and other items have helped make it the No. 3 e-commerce player in China behind Alibaba and JD.com, Lin said.
The capitalist running dogs in Cupertino must prepare to meet their doom at the hands of communist upstart XIAOMI! My last warning to sell all the crappy Apple stock you own. It will be a long slide to the bottom and AAPL will crater the same way crude oil price has
AAPL at $132 on July 20th 2015 will stand as its high water mark for 50 years. AAPL got high and overpriced, it will now start plumbing the depths. There is and will be a mass boycott of yr overpriced Apple junks and junk devices starting in China and Asia
The Chinese and Vietnamese are DONE!!! with these gay__HUCKSTERS and capitalist running dogs.
Just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it's not there. The same companies that have sued Xiaomi in India, Microsoft, Ericcson, Sony, Samsung, etc., the holders of large numbers of important FRAND standards patents in cellular phones, will sue them here if they try to make a major retail push here. Why do you think no major carrier is even interested in talking to them? Legally, their products are unable to link to the networks. None of them can be FCC approved because they aren't licensed. Once they start taking notice of these piecemeal one-off sales via eBay, the customs office will start seizing them. They don't now because they're single sales, and difficult to intercept, probably list as "parts" on the manifest.
I'm not "extropalating" anything, just stating facts. Xiaomi doesn't license the intellectual property they use in their products. This has been stated and proved many times. Their CEO even said it was part of their business plan so they could cut costs. Ergo, countries that have strong copyright and patent laws WILL NOT permit Xiaomi to sell their pirated products in competition with legally licensed products. Quod Erat Demonstradum. The six countries where they are selling are countries that make and sell pirated products themselves. India was the first market they tried to enter that has civilized rule of law. They found out quickly when their products were confiscated and destroyed.
As I said, the carriers won't touch Xiaomi. If they were as good as you claim-- and legal-- they'd be falling all over themselves to sell them. They aren't, and they're not legal in most countries. They're just cheap.
What I can say about Xiaomi is that if they'd get their corporate head out of their corporate asses about licensing, they are doing a lot of things right, because they are emulating Apple's playbook. Their CEO has even said as much. They are contracting on consumer experience. They could be a true force if they got themselves legal in patent licensing. Right now, in the world market, they're their own worst enemy.
Carriers? lol You just sign up with some cheapo pay as you go Costs roughly $40 per month
It is US Customs who isn't touching Xiaomi phones!!!! You should buy one because it beats the pants off any iFone. Matter of fact most new features on iFones..... Apple steals them from Xiaomi. Xiaomi will be suing their lazy butts.
All well and good but all that is just pro forma boilerplate. If you weren't such a cheapskate you would buy a Xiaomi Smart Fone off of Ebay today, it would be shipped to you from Hong Kong and the US Customs Service would not confiscate it. In the last few years I have bought 15 items direct from China and Hong Kong. There is a flood of packages coming from there and no way is US Customs going to pick out the Xiaomi fones. My guess is Xiaomi fones are 100% legal to buy on ebay and have shipped to you, me, anyone in America from China.
Furthermore I will bet I can find and buy xiaomi phones in independently owned cell phone stores in the USA though not in Best Buy and Walmart
Like this one from ebay>>>>>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Xiaomi%20Mi%20Note&clk_rvr_id=956658369348&mfe=search
The Xiaomi Mi Note is the best phone you can't have (Buy it on ebay)
You can't get it in the US, but it's a sign of things to come
By Chris Ziegler on February 26, 2015 09:02 am Email @zpower
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/26/8107087/xiaomi-mi-note-review
5.7 Inch XIAOMI MI Note 4G LTE Snapdragon 801 Quad Core 2.5GHz 3GB 16GB 13MP
My, my, my, are you delusional. Hilariously so, Baron. From your own linked article:
"Somewhere in this technological New Wave lies Xiaomi, a Chinese firm founded in 2010 that has become impossible to ignore. That's driven partly by its unapologetic Apple mimicry: its marketing, product strategy, and design aesthetic all borrow elements from Cupertino's playbook. "
Thanks for always providing the proof of your insanity, Baron Munchausen. You are amusing.
Me a "cheapskate?" LOL! You've spent years building the claim that people (and me) spend far too much on our Apple devices. And you now claim if I were NOT a "cheapskate," I'd spring for buying a junk Android phone on eBay which does not have a means of repair, any guarantee service in the USA, and will not work seamlessly with any other of my equipment. It is a worthless phone to me. In one SWELL FOOP, you undo all those years of your propaganda. It is delicious watching you eat your words. Is crow delicious, DennisW? ROTFLMAO!
Xiaomi will be suing their lazy butts.
Uh, you have to have patents to sue. Xiaomi has none. Even Google had to expend over $25 BILLION in acquiring patents to use as trading stock to defend against the over 60 lawsuits that were filed on Android's copyright and patent infringements. Xiaomi's net worth is only twice what it took Google to make those lawsuits go away. That isn't liquid assets they can use to acquire companies with large arsenals of patents to use as trade off weaponry. Xiaomi isn't rich enough to fight this battle. Wake up and smell the coffee, Baron.
Admit it! You crave it! You crave one but are too chknsht to order the highest rank XIAOMI from Hong Kong (via ebay) because you believe the ENSSSAY will be tracking your irrelevant apple luvin arse
No, it isn't. How many last warnings have you given? That prediction is old enough to shave by now.
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