Sunday, August 10, 2008

Confirmed iPhone has remote App kill switch and iPhone app sales - $1 million per day!

According to a reuters report, Apple sold an average of $1 million a day in applications for a total of about $30 million in sales over the month, Jobs told the paper (The Wall Street Journal).

If sales stay at the current pace, Apple stands to earn at least $360 million a year in new revenue from the App Store, Jobs said.

"This thing's going to crest a half a billion, soon," Jobs told the journal adding that it may be a "$1 billion marketplace at some point in time."

Jobs confirmed that iPhones routinely check an Apple Web site that could, in theory, trigger the removal of the undesirable software from the devices.

He told the paper that Apple needed the capability in case it inadvertently allowed a malicious program to be distributed to iPhones through the App Store.

This confirms the earlier reports about Apple's tight control on things. I would rather have companies less control than more control on a device that I paid for and is not leased to me for a fixed duration.

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