Apple's App Store? It's "A store [that] for the most part people can trust", according to Phil Schiller, the company's veep of marketing and all-around amusing guy on the front bench at Apple. In an interview with Arik Hessendahl of BusinessWeek. , Schiller explains that "you and your familt and friends can download applications from the store, and for the most part they do what you'd expect, and they get onto your phone and you get billed appropriately, and it all just works." In that, Schiller is absolutely correct. There are rogue worms which infect jailbroken iPhones. [cracked so they can work on any network and. any app can be installed; this is not the same as those which have been sold from semi-authorised resellers] and, if you haven't changed the root password, will access your private history and text messages and might divert you to phishing or malware sites. Which is suddenly a good reason not to jailbreak your iPhone. Schiller compares Apple's role to that of a retailer
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