Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps?
by John Paczkowski
Posted on 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?
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Comments
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
Posted by Mark Sigal at August 8th, 2008 at 4:06 am