Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps?

August 7, 2008 at 8:53 am PT

Really? Not according to Apple. At least not yet, anyway. The company appears to have denied the allegation to BusinessWeek. And certainly the bit of code that’s inspired all this speculation seems more proof-of-concept then anything else. Perhaps it’s a future reassurance for Apple’s (AAPL) new friends in the enterprise space.

{
    "Date Generated" = "2008-08-07 17:30:38 Etc/GMT";
    "BlackListedApps" = {
        "com.mal.icious" = {
            "Description" = "Being really bad!";
            "App Name" = "Malicious";
            "Date Revoked" = "2004-02-01 08:00:00 Etc/GMT";
        };
    };
}

com.mal.icious? “Description” = “Being really bad”? A 2004 revoke date?

Tagged with: Apple, iPhone apps, John Paczkowski

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http://www.thenetworkgarden.com Mark Sigal

Personally, I think that this is Apple’s version of Border Control for access to the iPhone Universe.

As I believe that governance is part of the equation, I say hurrah!

In fact, I just posted on this aspect of the topic:

iPhone Universe: Network Borders, Kill Switches and The Core Location
http://thenetworkgarden.blogs......verse.html

Check it out if interested.

Cheers,

Mark