Actually this sounds more like a Government effort.. in case your at a Anti Government Rally.. they can shut down your phone.. and commence with brutality...or unjustly arrests... and since no one can record it other than the press who most likely won't get close enough to see it... they can dispute it.. or say whatever they want.. (It can go a lot further than that... but that was a for instance..)

Not to mention how stupid this is.. if you need to call an ambulance.. or someone to get you out of there or pick you up..

they've always had cell phone jammers. They are illegal in the U.S.. Not that being illegal stops the government or others from doing things.

 I imagine 911 wouldn't be blocked. Not to mention, you could just jailbreak it.

Anyways, if theres an emergency, people have survived thousands a year without the invention of the cell phone. Walk 100 feet, and your out of the shut off zone. Hooray!  Companies file patents for lots of things they never put into use. If you create an idea it makes sense to secure your IP. Because it could make you money down the road in unexpected areas.

I don't have an apple phone so I don't really care what they do, if they put this in your phone and you you buy it anyways its your fault.

I'm not for or against this, everyone fiddling around with their cell phone all day is annoying. Such as texting in the movie theater, when its stated to turn off your damn phone so the light doesn't disturbe anyone. But government taking away things arbitrarilly is annoying too, if the government is influencing this, they should get incapacitated. If just apple or the cell phone provider, its their product, they can do what they want.

Apple gets a patent for a lot of things that never see the light of day. Try to remain calm.

Everyone agrees on something. People always serperate them selfs. I try to go issue by issue.

Jeeh.. Year old article..