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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."
Android kill-switches are necessary, lest they rise up and try to overthrow their masters.
The first thing my android did is remove his. If a robot is smart enough to be useful, he will assume you have installed a kill switch and will sneak around until he finds where you keep the remote control.
Oh wait, you're talking about a phone, never mind.
Ooo! Ooo! Fanboy fight! Everybody come watch.
In this corner, we have the challengers -- thousands of lukewarm Google fanboys. And, in that corner, we have the 32-time heavyweight champions of the world -- almost a dozen pry-my-Mac-from-my-cold-dead-fingers Apple fanboys.
I rate this match a toss-up, what about you, Steve and Larry?
"We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." --The American President (20.1.2009)
ED-209
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
"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.
This is an outrage! I was taught in school that the Three Laws would protect us!!!
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
We are
( ) Microsoft
( ) Apple
(X) Google
and we know what's best for you.
Have gnu, will travel.
Is there a source for this statement? People in the comment threads have said this a dozen times, but nobody's mentioned why they believe this is true.
Strange as this may sound, if you look hard enough in the summary, you'll find that some words are underlined. The fact is, that if you click on these words, your web browser will take you elsewhere, and even stranger is that one of these "links" (as we call a consequent group of such words leading to the same destination) will lead you to a site other than Slashdot. We call that place the "article" in layman's terms ("TFA" in common Slashdot parlance).
Now, of course, I wouldn't expect you, or many others, to actually know these secrets, but some would consider them a source for points in the discussion of, well, an article.
Do I offend the ones who can draw pretty pictures or the ones who can root my computer and steal my credit information...
That being said, the iPhone app store definitely sucks more, and so does the iPhone!
http://www.eatliver.com/img/2008/3509.jpg
I think that a kill switch for androids is a very bad idea and doesn't make sense for me.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I'm not laughing because it's funny, I'm laughing because if someone is that absolutely fuck-dumb then I can probably look forward to reading their eventual darwin award.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Why are you paying for a NES emulator?
Except the lock pick comes in the form of an app that takes less than a minute to do its magic and you never have to deal with it ever again.
So it's like using a crowbar to open said house?
The only CORRECT way to operate ANY Apple product is with a crowbar.
It's called Jailbreaking.
Watch out for Jailbot.
on an iPhone, you can only* install applications via the appstore
Well, you know jack shit about ad-hoc distribution, but then we are used to you knowing jack shit.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck