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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:51:25 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone
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> Legitimate iPhone apps can access the screen, camera, accelerometer,
> gps and a portion of the filesystem. One could technically write a
> drawterm that "polled" for instructions from a remote CPU server and
> act on the local devices.
>
> Not sure if Apple would construe this as "executing remote code
> fetched through a web service" - that's for a lawyer to discuss - but
> technically speaking, it is *possible* to remotely control and receive
> input from the iPhone screen, camera, accelerometer, gps etc; all
> using the official SDK.

seems like a risk not worth taking.  i'd hate to have a project
fail due to a forseeable problem.

- erik