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During the last XCode beta, I was playing around with the iPhone simulator and using a proxy I saw the server would respond to geocoding requests with an 'application/x-protobuf' header. That header has since been removed, but the data is still encoded the same (comparing the same request before and after). I was going to try to figure out the RPC encoding method Apple's using, but I lost motivation after reading that they are rate-limiting the API, making it less useful to me.

straighttalk and some othe mvnos (cell service resellers) are also in the $40 ballpark for unlimited service. The only practical restriction is you can't use it for tethering.

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Presumably they'll still be tracking which ads were downloaded by your device. So instead of directly sharing your data with advertisers, now the advertisers can simply do a bit of data mining to infer your data from the ads you download.

I took a look at the network traffic between the iPhone simulator and their servers and it appears they're using a proprietary variant of protocol buffers to encode the data. As soon as somebody figures out how they tweaked the encoding, the rest should be relatively easy.

It still requires Flash: "In order to use Pandora internet radio, please upgrade to a more current browser or install a newer version of Flash (v.10 or later)."

That was with FF 7.0 w/o Flash.