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Old 07-29-2010, 09:41 AM   #10
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The whole walled garden just gives people a false sense of security really, code that does more than expected has already slipped through not to mention this whole thing about ad-supported apps including advertss that will then dial a premium rate phone number for you without asking.
Actually it is impossible to write an app that just dials a number without alerting the user on iOS at this time. Direct dialing is not possible through the supported APIs without putting up a nice dialog box to alert the user a number is going to be dialed (and approval is asked for).
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