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A Bad Day for Apple: Banned iPhone Ads, Embarrassing Security Hole, and a Censored Comic

Posted from ReadWriteWeb 86 days ago
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For most companies, having to deal with one piece of bad publicity in a day is already bad enough. Apple, however, has to deal with three pieces of bad publicity today. In England, the Advertising Standards Authority, moved to ban one of Apple's ads for the iPhone because of misleading statements in it. Also, an embarrassing security hole in the iPhone firmware lets anybody bypass your security code, and Apple's move to ban a violent comic book from the App Store has also set off a minor firestorm of protests. iPhone Ad Banned Apparently, two British TV viewers were unhappy about the fact th... (original story)