Remember Apple’s dirty little secret? It’s no mystery that Apple has complete control over your iPhone, after all, Apple made it. Well, it turns out that that shoddy little news about a blacklist is possibly true. Daringfireball.net (they’re gay for iPhones) reports how potentially malicious or useless applications that don’t meet Apple’s standards could be revoked not only off of the App Store but also off of any individual iPhone carrying the app.

It is not a blacklist for disabling apps completely, but rather specifically for preventing any listed apps from accessing Core Location — an API which, for obvious privacy reasons, is covered by very strict rules in the iPhone SDK guidelines.

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Did you know that Apple has complete control over your iPhone? If you download an application from the App Store that is later removed, like I Am Rich, it’s normally no big deal. There’s simply no cause for alarm. But what if someone had uploaded a secret malicious application and it was installed on iPhones across the country?

No problemo. Apple can remotely remove applications from your iPhone whether you like it or not. It’s more of a safety precaution and makes sense if you take a second to think about it. However, this also means Apple could help the government out if need be. Watch your back, kid.

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From smug asshole and (possibly) Nazi extraordinaire Armin Heinrich comes the most ridiculous iPhone app of all time. It costs $999, which is the highest priced application available, and does not do anything. It displays a glowing red gem. Know why? Because you’re rich. In fact, that’s what the app is called. I Am Rich. Yup.

Apple takes a 30-percent cut of all apps sold on the App Store, so that’s $300 it gets while Armin takes home $600 because he’s a bastard. Bastard.

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Wu Tang Clan rapper and drug expert Ghostface Killah once rapped that “all around the world today the kilo is the measure, a kilo is a thousand grams easy to remember.” That may be true, drug dealers also have to work with many other units of measurement like ounces, which weigh in at a much less memorable 28.35 grams. Thankfully, now there’s Units, an iPhone app which makes selling illegal drugs easier than ever.

Units, which is currently the third most popular iPhone app, is a simple calculator that allows users to convert between different units of measurement right on their phones. Units can convert between grams, ounces, pounds, and kilos making it an awesome app for drug dealers with rusty math skills. Best of all, Units also comes with a currency converter for international drug smuggling operations. Units costs just ninety-nine cents, which is just a fraction of what you could end up losing by falling victim to fuzzy math during a drug buy. Everybody knows how much dealers love cell phones, so if this app makes the iPhone the cell of choice for black market entrepreneurs Steve Jobs and the folks at who developed Units at Crossroad Solutions should stand to make a pretty penny. Units also calculates distances, temperatures, power for those of you who don’t sell illegal substances. With all of these features, it’s no wonder Units is outselling useless apps like iBeer and the D20 dice.

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Apple has announced that it has sold one million iPhone 3Gs since it launched last Friday. Says CEO Steve Jobs:

“iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

“It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world

At this rate, the iPhone 3G is easily on its way to surpass the original iPhone in sales. The fact that the 3G was launched in 22 counties probably helped too. Thought the one million units was impressive? Over 10 million applications have been downloaded from the App Store already, which is absurd. Apple really has locked itself into the mobile phone market as a top competitor this time around.

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A clever iPhone dev was playing around with the App Store included on the SDK and hacked versions of the iPhone 2.0 firmware. Little did he know that he was about to discover a first look at Apple’s App Store, instead of the usual “cannot connect” error warning.

Just revealed on the Modmyifone forums, here is the very first look at what the iPhone’s App Store will look like, of course with many more applications available. So it would seem that Apple is already playing around with the App Store service, which looks eerily similar to the Installer.app that Apple was trying so hard to stop. — Andrew Dobrow

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