06-17-2011, 04:58 AM
Assuming this brief bit on CNN heard in the background is what everyone is assuming it to be…
Nothing is being left "up to Apple". They would be providing a capability that a given venue would decide to implement or not.
It's not a "portable film jammer", it's an electronic 'off' signal that temporarily stifles functions on a cell phone. As for rogue cops, there are still plenty of other ways to make them famous. Plain old digital cameras, still and motion. Eye witness reports tweeted and facebooked and phoned and given to the media. Dust of those film cameras, can't RFID those. The citizen reporter is still a cat very much out of the bag.
And if this is what it might be, what makes you think Apple is the only one working to scratch the itch of this niche if a niche there is? Because it hasn't been on CNN? Yet?
Nothing is being left "up to Apple". They would be providing a capability that a given venue would decide to implement or not.
It's not a "portable film jammer", it's an electronic 'off' signal that temporarily stifles functions on a cell phone. As for rogue cops, there are still plenty of other ways to make them famous. Plain old digital cameras, still and motion. Eye witness reports tweeted and facebooked and phoned and given to the media. Dust of those film cameras, can't RFID those. The citizen reporter is still a cat very much out of the bag.
And if this is what it might be, what makes you think Apple is the only one working to scratch the itch of this niche if a niche there is? Because it hasn't been on CNN? Yet?