Looks like Apple remains a first at something. Three days before a scheduled meeting between authorities and smartphone companies over the issue of mobile-devices robberies, Apple announced its iPhones will feature a kill switch, allowing the user to turn it off and track it using a GPS.
Whereas most people have been debating whether or not the iOS 7 design of icons and overall colorful theme are cool enough or not, some new useful features the new firmware is set to implement were put aside. For instance, iOS 7 will implement a kill switch in your iPhone to help you keep tabs on it when it gets lost or is picked by a robber. This makes Apple the first smartphone company to take action following recent law enforcement attempts to limit smartphone robberies.
“We think this is going to be a really powerful theft deterrent” said Craig Federighi, senior vice president at Apple, during the iOS 7 debut at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Based on the details released during the conference, the kill switch can remotely erase all content via a website and prevents the robber from turning off “Find My iPhone” by requesting an Apple ID and password.
“Apple picking is a huge epidemic in the United States” reads a joint statement by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman following Apple’s announcement which was released just ahead of a meeting that aimed to find ways of limiting or preventing mobile-device robberies. “We are appreciative of the gesture made by Apple to address smart-phone theft”.
Apple picking has been so thriving lately that New York has a special police unit dealing particularly with mobile-device robberies. According to a statement by Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne, “if you subtracted just the increase in Apple product thefts, we would have had an overall decrease in crime in New York”.
“We think this is going to be a really powerful theft deterrent” said Craig Federighi, senior vice president at Apple, during the iOS 7 debut at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Based on the details released during the conference, the kill switch can remotely erase all content via a website and prevents the robber from turning off “Find My iPhone” by requesting an Apple ID and password.
“Apple picking is a huge epidemic in the United States” reads a joint statement by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman following Apple’s announcement which was released just ahead of a meeting that aimed to find ways of limiting or preventing mobile-device robberies. “We are appreciative of the gesture made by Apple to address smart-phone theft”.
Apple picking has been so thriving lately that New York has a special police unit dealing particularly with mobile-device robberies. According to a statement by Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne, “if you subtracted just the increase in Apple product thefts, we would have had an overall decrease in crime in New York”.
0 comments:
Post a Comment