Apple As An Enforcer For iPhone Applications?

I'm pretty sure that for most of us, hearing "it's for your own good" when we were younger was a common thing. We didn't understand it then, and it's even possible that we don't understand it now, but we've learned to both love and hate those words. They protected us, but they prevented us from getting what we want too.

How would you feel if Apple had the ability to do something like that? It looks like Apple has the ability to deactivate programs from iPhones, and it can do so remotely. By contacting an online URL, it can take a look at a blacklist of applications to determine whether a forbidden program is on the unit or not.

“This suggests that the iPhone calls home once in a while to find out what applications it should turn off. At the moment, no apps have been blacklisted, but by all appearances, this has been added to disable applications that the user has already downloaded and paid for, if Apple so chooses to shut them down.

Although no applications save for a test one are listed yet, the existence of the said blacklist is already raising a few eyebrows. Head over to the source for more.

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