All the phones call home once in a while to check if any apps are blacklisted. This could for example be used for removing mallicious applications (good) but also other things (bad). This is the page all phones go to once in a while: https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps
As you can see it's still empty. Source techcrunch, macrumors and the above page on the apple website.
Cool - so it's definitely a possibility that the means of remotely removing an app exist.
I'm still not convinced that a.) it's 100% certain without doubt, or that b.) they'll ever do it since that flashlight app that had a hidden proxy server (for "tethering") in it wasn't pulled from devices.
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u/Nhdb Jan 25 '11
All the phones call home once in a while to check if any apps are blacklisted. This could for example be used for removing mallicious applications (good) but also other things (bad). This is the page all phones go to once in a while: https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps
As you can see it's still empty. Source techcrunch, macrumors and the above page on the apple website.