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The Giant Retains Ability To Kill Apps On Their iPhone Not liked

Boston, MA- Apple has been enjoying a lot of credit from the open source community for declaring that other applications can be designed and ran successfully from the new Apple iPhone 3G platform.

But now, Apple is not being praised with the most recent discovery.

Apple buried several lines of code deep in the Apple iPhone 2.0 Operating system, that are basically designed to do one thing: Kill and disable any application that Apples doesn’t like that is found on customer phones.

The presence of the “kill switch” was discovered by an independent software developer by the independent Internet developer Jonathan Zdziarski.

Several different applications have been disappearing from the iPhone Application store, as different applications are being removed by Apple from customer access.

Recent victims of the “Apple Software Purge,” include Netshare, PhoneSaber, and BoxOffice.

The applications were removed from the Apple online store, they were not actually removed remotely using the Apple “kill switch”.

Many in the industry are baffled by the actions of Apple; why announce the freedom of other Applications to be able to run on the Apple iPhones if you secretly are maintaining a way to kill off undesired applications.