Deleting apps from the iPhone

It's supposed to be your "life in your pocket," not Apple's. But a piece of code discovered in the iPhone operating system might keep you under Apple's control. Jonathan Zdrianski, author of the book iPhone Open Application Development, discovered a URL hidden in iPhone's CoreLocation that he believes the iPhone uses to check whether any apps on your phone match with those listed in a database of blacklisted applications. Presumably, that would allow Apple to remotely de-authorize those apps, or perhaps even delete them. "This suggests that the iPhone calls home once in a while to find out what applications it should turn off," Zdrianski wrote. "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 it down." Hum. So then all of those who got away with NetShare before it disappeared from the App Store aren't so safe/lucky after all. Now, if Apple were more organized with regard to what appears and disappears from the App Store, they probably wouldn't need this emergency procedure. What's the point of an approval process if the useless, $1,000 "I Am Rich" app is going to make it out the door, only to be yanked immediately afterward?

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Secret URL May Allow Apple to Delete Your iPhone Apps Remotely ...
It's supposed to be your life in your pocket, not Apple's. But a piece of code discovered in the iPhone operating system might keep you under Apple's control. Jonathan Zdrianski,
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How to Delete Applications from the iPhone 3G - MonkeySee
How to Delete Applications from the iPhone 3G: A video tutorial geared at new users of the iPhone 3G, or people who are now using the 1st generation model.
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iPO Quick Tip - iTunes: Deleting iPhone Apps || The iPod Observer ...
Tip. iPO Quick Tip - iTunes: Deleting iPhone Apps. Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 7:30 AM - by
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Guide to native applications for the iPhone - iPhone Atlas
This application will let you browse files on your iPhone, and launch applications by double-tapping them. It also lets you copy, paste and delete items, as well as create new ...
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Apple iPhone Apps - News and Reviews On The Best iPhone Applications
A story posted by Macenstein tells the tale of deleting official Apple apps from an iPhone. While pressing down on an icon will cause all 3rd party apps to jiggle and display a ...
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Apple Adds an Odd Wrinkle to iPhone Apps Policy
... user friendly" podcast directory and an auto sync feature that will download the most current 10 podcasts while deleting ... He goes on to note that numerous iPhone apps that have been approved duplicate the functions of others.
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Source: InternetNews.com
NewsDateTime: 9/16/2008

How to: Delete Apple’s iPhone apps
Now, the key to deleting these apps is that you are not really deleting them so much as you are “banishing” them to the hidden 10th page on the iPhone.
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Source: Crunchgear.com
NewsDateTime: 9/17/2008

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... herself had told me informally at the Sunday night cocktail party that she expected around a couple of dozen iPhone apps to be ... The Cleartracks trademark involves "computer programs for deleting search history after accessing Web sites," according to ...
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Source: CNET News
NewsDateTime: 9/15/2008

Rob Pegoraro
My only complaint is that some iPhone apps won't run on the iPod touch; it seems that these location-based apps (like Yelp ... Should I hit the Apple store to see if anything can be done to improve performance, e.g., deleting 9 OS?
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Source: Washington Post
NewsDateTime: 18 hours ago

iPhone Fixes We Want to See
Some capability for batch-deleting or -editing--not just in Mail, but in other apps, as well--would save time and sanity. Bring landscape mode to more applications: Typing on the iPhone's keyboard is among the device's surprising pleasures. But that ...
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Source: PC World
NewsDateTime: 9/17/2008


Deleting apps from the iPhone Posted Sep 19th 2008 8:00AM by Mike Schramm Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone, App Store Macenstein posted a strange little tip earlier this week for getting Apple's official apps off of your iPhone (I personally never use the Stocks app, and really don't need it taking up space around the apps I do use). But his method isn't so much a tip as an exploit -- basically, Apple has a secret 10th "page" of Application icons, and Macenstein's method is to put so many apps onto your iPhone that the official ones get squeezed off screen.

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