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As far as I'm concerned, this is the iAd:

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif

Joking aside, I wonder if Apple will ban ad-blocking apps from the app store. I definitely don't want my mobile bandwidth bill to get artificially inflated because I was forced to download ads.

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Apps that block their own ads? I'm sure Apple wouldn't give a shit. App Store apps are sandboxed, and can't fuck with each other or with the built-in apps.

Apple doesn't sell the iPhone through carriers anywhere without an unlimited data plan. They'll only be changing that with the iPad in a month or so.

For what it's worth, that bit about unlimited data plans isn't entirely true. The standard iPhone voice and data plans from Vodacom in South Africa bundle only 250Mb of data, while I'm fairly sure that Rogers in Canada and Vodafone in Australia don't sell the iPhone with unlimited data plans, at least not on all contracts.

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