Bought An App for Your iPhone? Careful, Apple Can Disable It Anytime

If you’ve been buying applications from the App Store ’til now, better hope Apple doesn’t consider it anything bad or risk getting it wiped out of your phone. Yep, an issue raised recently has something to do with Apple erasing already installed applications on working Apple iPhone 3G units.

You see, Apple has complete control over the App store. When the peeps at Cupertino find anything they think is malicious, they could pull it down. However, it’s inevitable that some (or a lot of) people would have already downloaded and installed those apps. According to MacRumors, it might be possible that Apple could even disable those applications on your iPhone 3G which you’ve already paid for and installed, and without warning too. Jonathan Zdziarski, author of two iPhone-centric books, says:

“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.

“I discovered this doing a forensic examination of an iPhone 3G. It appears to be tucked away in a configuration file deep inside CoreLocation.”

This URL reportedly contains a list of all blacklisted iPhone 3G applications: https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps.

While we can speculate and condemn Apple all we want right now, in the end, none of what’s happening would be clear until we hear from the company itself. But what do YOU think? Are you in favor of or against Apple disabling applications remotely?

via CrunchGear