Although they're not doing anything as of yet to directly deter people from modifying the phones software (aside from voiding the warranty of course), Apple said that future updates might brick your phone due to conflict with the hacked software.
These lenses modify the phone's camera feed in humorous ways, swapping people's faces, "embiggening" their eyes, allowing them, for example, to puke rainbows.
In an effort to rebuild public trust, Mr. Obama said he wanted to work with Congress to modify the phone log program, but in what he said would be an "appropriate" way.
Apple could have opened up developer hooks so iOS apps could have similar abilities to modify the phone app.
Rather than opening up the ability to modify the Phone app for developers, Apple chose to build in limited blocking functionality itself.
Compare that with Android, which lets downloaded apps like Mr Number drastically modify the phone to allow for blocking of whole area codes of numbers, options to send specific numbers to voicemail, and even crowdsourced address books so nearly every incoming call comes with a name attached.
It came with an unlockable bootloader to allow the user to modify the phone's software.
Rather than allow third-party developers to modify the native Phone app like on Android, Apple has chosen to offer this feature itself.
For those who cannot wait to try this at home, a word of caution: to install these programs on an iPhone or iPod Touch requires the user to "jailbreak" the devices, modifying the software to allow the phone to accept third-party applications.
