Apple have your IMEI number and your whole name, address, email address, credit card numbers. They collect all this when you buy your iPhone, and activate it. And you worry when they check to see who's looking at stocks!
It could be that when the second gen iPhone hits, it might need to go to a different server for stocks info, so the website just reffers the iPhone to the correct server dependant on its IMEI. Or maybe its to stop non-iphones collecting stock data from servers that apple pays to use (from yahoo), by checking that the IMEI matches one on their list of iPhones. There could be a million and one reasons, but everyone seems to jump on the 'invasion of privacy' bandwagon.
Apple have your IMEI number
Apple have your IMEI number and your whole name, address, email address, credit card numbers. They collect all this when you buy your iPhone, and activate it. And you worry when they check to see who's looking at stocks!
It could be that when the second gen iPhone hits, it might need to go to a different server for stocks info, so the website just reffers the iPhone to the correct server dependant on its IMEI. Or maybe its to stop non-iphones collecting stock data from servers that apple pays to use (from yahoo), by checking that the IMEI matches one on their list of iPhones. There could be a million and one reasons, but everyone seems to jump on the 'invasion of privacy' bandwagon.