Apple Sells 60 Million iPhone Apps, Jobs Confirms Kill Switch
Found on Wired on Sunday, 10 August 2008
In a rare gesture of openness, Apple has revealed data about iPhone application sales and confirmed the existence of a "kill switch" to disable malicious applications.
Even more interesting, though, is the strangely open and forthcoming answer Jobs gave when asked about the remote kill switch for iPhone applications. He confirmed that it is indeed possible for Apple to reach into your phone from afar and disable malicious applications.
"Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull," he told the WSJ.
Yeah, as if you can trust Apple. With that kill switch they are bascially keeping a back door open to mess with a user who paid for his phone. For now, they say they would only use it against "evil" applications, but that might change. Imagine Microsoft had such a kill switch on your PC: installed non-MS certified software? Deleted. Booting Linux? Deleted. If I pay for something, I want to use it the way I want, even if it might brick it or I do something illegal with it. I surely don't want any company to babysit me.