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."

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Re:in light of the up-and-coming nigger president

[Anonymous Coward]

Hilarious if you've got a single digit IQ and live in Alabama, maybe.

see that's the secret about google

[circletimessquare]

everyone is familiar with their "do no evil"

http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

sounds pretty straightforward right?

but consider that no one really knows anything anymore without double checking it on the web

and how do people reconfirm their preconceptions? they go to the internet, our vast backup memory dump

and how do they check out the meanings of words on the internet?

they go to google

so all google has to do is repoint the word "evil" to pictures of unicorns and rainbows and little girls with flowers and leprechauns (ok, that last one really is evil)

that way, google doesn't once break its word

it merely breaks words themselves

google warps reality as we understand it by subtly redefining the meaning of the words we use!

(shudder)

im a turkish

[unity100]

and if you have been in turkey, you would have got beaten with a thick stick.

pray your lucky stars that you live in a country which is that tolerant to racism.