WARNING WARNING IPHONE APP " BLACKLIST"

From where did you download this Application, I do not believe it was from the iTunes store or Apple's App store.

Follow the link bellow for more info, sorry for what happened to you. This is one of the reasons that I only download Apps from iTunes and Apple's official iTune store and will not download from any other place ever:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2453008

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2738297?answerId=13011520022#13011520022

http://www.att.net/smartcontrols-SmartLimitsForWireless

Hi Captain,

In the US iTunes Store I found the following Apps:

Blacklist 1.3 with 2 stars and 196 negative reviews. and last update on Nov 25, 2009, so probably is not compatible with ios 4.2 and up

iBlacklist 1.0 with 20 negative reviews

Another thing I normally do is not to download Apps that have at least 10% or more of bad reviews, or the latest update older than four to six months.

Well, what can we do, think it is the case of living and learning.

I really hope you where able to fix both iPhones.

I would like to see Apple taking applications with extremely bad reviews off the App store line up, if they have a commission of 30% of the revenue, they also are co-responsable for the damage or damages that a app could cause, also due to the need of Apple's approval for an app to be sold in their app store.

No their not.

Where did you receive your law degree from?

First, I am not a lawyer,

Second, I stated my personal opinion on the post and I think maybe a did not express myself correctly, but allot of people will agree with me independent of been a lawyer or not.

if somebody ears money selling a product that can harm someone or some propriety and had the opportunity to approve it's sale over their restricted sales channel and the product sold is to be used with a product that they manufacture, they also have not only the opportunity but the obligation to test the functionality of that add on product. Than in my opinion they are co-responsable, thats a matter of morality to the people that buy their products and of hiring a good lawyer to represent you.

I am a Apple customer and I purchased a product or accessory in the Apple store.

Are they not co-responsable for the product that they sale?

I am not talking about warranty, but if the product is proven to be defective and it caused any damage to my iPhone or other Apple product right after the purchase are they not responsible in fixing it o replacing my Apple equipment?

So I can understand that you are a lawyer for what you wrote in your post, please inform us, tell us why not, Let us know.

And I and others will thank you for your Help in our future decisions.

I Just hope Apple stands for their products and assist and respect their customer base, they will need them to survive in the future.

Are they not co-responsable for the product that they sale?

Not from the App store, read the Terms of Service that you agreed to.

and respect their customer base, they will need them to survive in the future.

You are right about that, Apple is down to their last 15 billion (±).

What about Location data, people accepted in the agreement but due to public pressure Apple is changing the way is done, if I accepted the terms, why Apple would change under pressure.

Maybe Public Opinion, Maybe the possibility of losing customers.

Maybe a good argument in front of a judge like:

"the customers are some way forced to accept the agreement, due to be the only way to purchase safe applications for their devices, since they also kind of force the developers to use only their sales channel, they give the idea to the customer that the only good and safe channel to buy applications is in their sales channel"

Second, they did not notify their customer of the terms and conditions of purchasing additional applications at the time of the equipment purchase, I am not obligated to research the limitations before I Buy a Product but a manufacture need to inform.

All contracts and its terms can be argued even due to the circumstances that they are signed or accepted.

So we can argue for days or even weeks, at the end it may depend on a Judge or jury opinion.

Second you can have 15 billions, but if you start losing customer base, the money may not help you recuperate the peoples trust. I do not think that Apple could be so arrogant to think they do not depend in their customer base.

Just look around for the number of large companies that are broke at the moment.

Living and learning, and less arrogance.

Some exemples of people that sued Apple independently of agreements including cases related to the App store, in some cases people got a settlement of some kind, Others are waiting for the outcome,

I am not saying that they are right to sue in most cases, I am just saying that we have the right to fight for our rights as a consumer and the legal system is here for that.

In the end, I always can take my money elsewhere.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384301,00.asp

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372127,00.asp

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2365940,00.asp

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372127,00.asp

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2349421,00.asp

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367089,00.asp

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1880615,00.asp

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383641,00.asp

It's too bad Apple doesn't have a good, non-jailbreak Blacklist app in the App store. For some reason, I'm starting to get a significant number of telemarketing calls on my iPhone, which it would have been nice to block. (My guess is that somebody must be selling my phone number. And http://www.donotcall.gov doesn't seem to work very well.... or at least it hasn't kicked in yet: maybe after 30 days....)

It's gotten to the point, if the number isn't in my phone list, I'm not going to answer it....

Apparently Android has a Blacklist App. If Android/Google can put a Black List app out, why can't Apple? It's certainly an App that I would pay money for.

Apps do not have access to the APIs necessary to emulate blacklisting callers (note that true call blocking can ONLY be done at the carrier level). This is a security issue and I wholeheartedly agree with Apple's approach to the matter. I don't want apps to be able to actually gain access to the phone. This would open up a great big can-o-worms we don't want to deal with.

There's a reason you hear stories on a regular basis about malicious android apps being removed from the Antroid market, and you don't hear the same kind of stories about iOS apps... Open platforms are great, until someone shoots thier eye out...

The national do not call list takes time to kick in if you just added your number to it. It is, however, also illegal to place telemarketing calls to ANY cellular phone. Be sure you inform the callers that this is a cell phone.

The robo-calls about lowering your interest rates... don't even bother to try and stop them. They are criminals, plain and simple, attempting to steal personal information for the purpose of identity theft. They use robocallers from phone numbers that are typically active for between 30 and 90 days... until the carrier they're using shuts them down for not paying their bill. Report them to the FTC and your attorney general.

I am an I phone 4s user since 5 days. Surely the best thing using an I phone are the apps. But quantity is not everything. At present there are about SIX blacklist apps in the OFFICIAL Apple Store which I can buy for MONEY but have NO USE AT ALL because of the APIs restrictions.

Why are they for sale anyway?

I received a significant number of telemarketing calls last year but I simply blocked it with an app for my nokia Symbian. I don´t want to to call my carrier to stop call, I also don´t want to use ring tones without sound I just want a simple way to get rid of unwanted telemarketing calls.

Android can do it, Symbian can do it .... but the MOST WANTED SUPER I PHONE 4 s is unable to stopp unwanted calls. THAT is SAD:(

All those apps will do is add thousands of numbers to your address book and attempt to assign them a silent ringtone.

Do you live in the U.S.? Go to http://www.donotcall.gov and register your number. It will take a few months, but the calls should decrease and eventually stop altogether. Don't put your real phone number on any contest entries, forms, surveys, etc. Sign up for a Google Voice # and use that.