Remember back in August when Steve Jobs confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that a “kill switch” existed within the iPhone API, allowing Apple to remotely disable malicious third-party applications distributed through the App Store? A big brouhaha ensued with lots of hand-wringing about how a closed marketplace wasn’t acting like purely free market (shocker). Nevermind that the “kill switch” hasn’t actually been used to remove apps from user phones and is actually just a security precaution to protect users against programs that might do actual harm to software devices (or I guess,
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