Apple rejected an app that detects the level of radiation emanating from the iPhone.
It seems Apple wants to hide the fact that its lovable little iPhone could be eating your brain alive. According to an article over on TechCrunch, Israeli startup company Tawkon developed an app that analyzes the cellular radiation emanating from the device, whether its in standby mode, or while you're in a call.
Radiation levels vary depending on environmental changes, your proximity to cell towers, and in the way the device is held. Even blocking the antennae with your hand will cause the device to work harder, thus increasing the amount of radiation. Supposedly the app detects the various levels in real-time.
Obviously this could be useful information, however Apple has decided not to approve the app, claiming that "a diagnostic tool of this nature would create confusion with iPhone owners from a usability perspective." This explanation was provided by an App Store representative on a phone call with the Tawkon team.
Tawkon is currently working on versions for Google's Android and RIM's Blackberry platforms.
In other words, it means they don't want customers to know they are being exposed to a radiation that made the WHO advice people to be careful with (http://www.who.int/docstore/peh-emf/publications/facts_press/EMF-Precaution.htm)
Another words, ALL cell phones. I love the major opinion on this site and all of its narrow mindedness.
Everyone is an expert, everyone knows exactly how a company should be run, and they all have their favorite companies and the ones they hate.
They should make army men with company names on them so you kids can pretend to kill off your "enemies".
Proof people are getting stupider
I agree lol, great news pic Kevin.
It would appear that you are an expert on everyone on this site, and and an expert on ways to measure "people getting stupider"
I don't know what country you're from, but in a free society, you don't kill your competition, you make your product better so you can continue to compete. Killing the competition is bad for the consumer.
the iphone cannot have apps developed to do anything. The iphone can only use resources that are either on-board (eg. processor, accelerometers, camera, ect.) or remote information such as server-side databases. it is impossible for the iphone to detect radiation because it does not have the equipment to do so. this means the best this app can do is make a rough guess at how much radiation is being given off.
I think I will have to side with Apple on this one
This app would just read the value and present it to the user.
So it would be possible to determine the radiation quite closely.
In other words, it probably just has a table of pre-determined radiation values, and shows the user what the value is based upon the function type that they select.
You can do anything you want on a call, except I think listen to music.. They actually show that in one of their commercials, since thats something you cant do on Verizon.
You are 100% right my firend. Its just like the countless other useless apps in the App store. iPhone radiation detector = FAIL
As for abowlofsoup's comment: It's true a lot of users here are trolls and have incredible biases, I won't claim to be an expert, but people here are incredibly biased and narrow minded.