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1. Eastern District of Texas, even though neither litigant lives there. So Red Rock's a patent troll.
2. If 802.11n and later are the problem, why sue Apple? They didn't invent 802.11n. Oh wait, $$$ that's why.
3. They already tried this scam on Samsung and it didn't fly there either.

I think I can guess how this case will be resolved.

Reminder to readers outside the US: the Afib detection does not work in all regions. If you’re in one of the (mostly European) countries where the ECG functionality is or was recently made available, you’ve got the Afib detection option (which you turn on using the instructions in this article). If you are in a country that does not have the ECG functionality turned on yet, you do not have Afib detection yet. You can, however, still set high and low heart rate alerts.

Unlike this report, other larger outlets resorted to far more hysterical headlines to make this seem a lot more serious for iOS users than it was. The bottom line on this is that -- while developer abuse of certificates is definitely a problem that Apple's going to have to find a better way to address -- due to some of the in-built protections in iOS, this was far less of an issue on iOS than it was on Android, where the app was able to capture pretty much anything it wanted.

In the iOS version, users had to give permission for each of the areas where it wanted to gather data, for example, which might raise suspicions ("why does my carrier need permission to access my voice memos or contacts?"). The Android version installed a rootkit, meaning it had full access to everything.

In addition, the iOS version of the app was not distributed in the App Store, even in Italy and Turkemenistan (where the app pretended to be the official app of one of the local carriers), The iOS version was given out only to people willing to "side-load" a dev-only app; the Android version was distributed in the Play Store and other outlets for anyone to download.

Finally, Apple's revoking of the certificate means the app can no longer run at all, even if users granted permissions. The Android version was kicked off the Play Store, but the installed versions are still happily ticking along, having used the rootkit to gain full access.

jdgaz said:

Anyone find a place to see the full list of magazines and news papers offered?

MacStories.net put together a list. Bear in mind they excluded newspapers and digital-only mags for the purposes of their article, and also bear in mind these are VERY early days -- a year from now it will be at least double this -- but here you go:

Wow, that guy who doesn't use Safari must be a S00PER L33T HAX0R G0D. hahahahahahaha!