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Steve Jobs has announced the number of iPhone applications sold through the Apple Store in the month since its launch. The number? A staggering 60 million, or 2 million downloads a day. The revenue from this is around $30 million, which means that for every one of the eight copies of I Am Rich, Apple probably shifted plenty of freebies, too.

Whichever way you cut it, that’s a big number, even if, as Gigaom’s Om Malik suggests, people aren’t actually using most of those applications. Even more interesting for us, though, is the strangely open and forthcoming answer Jobs gave when asked about the remote kill switch for iPhone applications. Jobs confirmed that it is indeed possible for Apple to reach into your phone from afar and disable applications: “Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull” he told the Wall Street Journal.

While it’s good to know that a malicious application can be immediately yanked from all iPhones at the press of a button, it’s a little worrying, too. Given the level of secrecy inside Apple, we have a picture in our heads of some kind of virtual Guantanamo Bay inside One Infinite Loop, where bad applications are kept locked up indefinitely and tortured to find their secrets.

“Oh, you like phishing, do you?” the ex-CIA interrogator will ask as he tips the imprisoned code back on a board and reaches for a bucket of water. “Then why don’t you take a swim?” he’ll shout, up-ending the bucket on the victim’s face.

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