Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android

Technologizer writes "It came out this week that Google's Android phone OS, like the iPhone, has a kill switch that lets Android Market applications be disabled remotely. But it's a mistake to lump Google's implementation and Apple's together — the Google version is a smart, pro-consumer move that avoids all the things that make Apple's version a bad idea."

Comments

The real amusement

[SuperKendall]

I find it amusing in a dark sort of way that anyone even thinks it's OK to buy a phone that has to even be 'jailbroken' in order to have any measure of freedom with it.

I find it even more amusing that people would not buy a fantastic device because in theory it is closed, when the reality is that it is open...

And you have a great deal of freedom asa developer with the iPhone, you can deploy anything you like. Why wouldn't I want to buy great hardware I can do anything I like with?

Your argument is confounding, on the order of someone telling you a door is locked and then you being unable to go through it even though you could just turn the knob.