[Electro]

I believe it's good and bad. It's dumb to outright ban pretty much everything, but I believe Apple should control everything that's put on their phones.

Phones can be forced to make calls through open bluetooth links, I believe it would be even worse for a contract iPhone to get a virus that forces you to call a premium rate number and netting someone thousands of dollars. At least with bluetooth you have to be in range, but with a trojan it could end up running 24/7. For example, whenever the phone goes into stand-by mode it starts the call and would likely go unnoticed for a good while, I've left my phone in stand-by for days, and have it disconnect whenever the phone 'wakes up'.

There needs to be serious control when a virus can make someone a profit. If it ever got to that, you can be sure the virus count would be up into the thousands as every hacker in an eastern-european country starts making iPhone viruses to net them a small fortune.

So yes it's dumb, there are better ways to protect the phones; for example a verification program built into the firmware and any time the verification gets hacked (if it does) they simply update the firmware and licensed software and any trojan would be incapable of running. This way anyone who wants to hack their phone can, and if they call up complaining they broke it Apple can simply give them a simple 'STFU moron, ToS violation'.