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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."
"Google good, Apple bad."
Yeah. Keep your own opinions to yourself, asshole. Some of us actually want things that work properly out of the box.
I live in the UK and find it funny as hell.
I'm not racist, but it's creative.
What a load of crap. The ONLY thing a kill switch is good for is to take control of choice of the apps away from the customer, and to set up and maintain a monopoly.
The Monopoly apologists then spout a nonsensical boogyman, by saying that it could be bad for the Network. This is the same argument that they used to defend themselves against competition with regular POTS landline phones back in the early 1980's. It was an invalid argument then (which the Anti-Monopoly Judge rejected then), and it's an invalid argument now.
Networks are designed to not trust the client, or the network is broken. Period.
By your logic, all ISP's and Microsoft should install a kill-switch on your computer to protect the Internet. And they should be responsible for what's on your computer, and not you.
Honestly, dude, you need to quite being such a fanboi and start using your head. If this flies, you can bet that companies are going to be trying to pull this stunt to take control of your PC. There's a lot of money to be made if they can do that, and you can believe that it's being considered by some PHB.
..and reboots randomly in the middle of phone calls, requires a monthly hard reset, won't have any manufacturer support once the next model comes out, etc etc
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.
You're just one of those cool counter-counter-culture kids who think that hating whatever's cool is awesome.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Yep I have to agree, I've never seen anyone put so much effort into a troll post.
Once you get past the whole "nigger" evil death panic word, it's a side-splitter!
Besides, there's a big difference between niggers and black people. Kanye West is a nigger. James Earl Jones is a very respectable negro. Tiger Woods is just a goddamn off-brown half-breed douchebag.
I love black people, but I hate niggers!
Ok, it's exaggerated, which means it's based on the truth. Like I said, you're a bigot.
* Yes, I'm aware of jail-breaking, but that's not a realistic option for most consumers.
the same people who are unwilling/unable to learn how to jailbreak, will be equally unwilling/unable to learn how to add more sources to an andriod phone.
I agree.
His point boils down to "I'm sure Apple will abuse it, and I'm sure Google won't abuse it." For example, this sentence:
Overall, I would compare Google's decision to remotely disable troublesome apps more to its malware detection service than to Apple's kill switch.
The exact same thing is a "kill switch" if Apple does it, but "malware detection service" if Google does it. There is no factual basis for this distinction. Apple has said that they intend to use the kill switch to disable malicious applications. They have not used it to disable any other application so far, even though they would have had opportunities to do so, should they want to use the kill switch for nefarious purposes. Even so, Apple's kill switch can't possibly be a "malware detection service", while Google's can.
There's obvious bias in this article.
Jailbreaking DOES void the warranty
Repeating a lie doesn't make it true.
It is not a lie and you have not demonstrated otherwise. Jailbreaking does void the warranty.
Apple will not service a Jailbroken phone - but that doesn't mean they will not service a phone that has been restored to the original OS, an operation that takes about five minutes. Once restored Apple cannot tell if it was ever Jailbroken or not.
The scenario you are talking about here is a case where the user has voided the warranty by jailbreaking the phone and then hides that fact. That's an act of deception on the part of the user. Restoring the original OS does not unvoid the warranty.
It is not a lie and you have not demonstrated otherwise. Jailbreaking does void the warranty.
My mistake, you are not a liar - you are an idiot. I already told you you could simply restore the phone, and that there is no indication you have ever Jailbroken it. Your inability to understand this simple fact places you squarely in the category of willfully ignorant Apple Hater. What a waste of a mind.
The scenario you are talking about here is a case where the user has voided the warranty by jailbreaking the phone and then hides that fact.
You are not "hiding" anything, you are RESTORING THE PHONE TO THE ORIGINAL STATE (hence the term "restore", my apologies for thinking you able to comprehend the term). As far as the phone is concerned, it was never Jailbroken.
If you install an operating system on your computer, and then format your drive and reinstall another OS are you "hiding" the fact it originally had another?
Apple doesn't care if you jailbreak the phone (or more updates would stop the jailbroken phones from working). What Apple cares about is that support people don't have to figure out issues with phones that might have all kinds of crazy adjustments made to the OS. How can you debug a problem when someone may have replaced some core feature of the kernel? That's why you have to restore a phone to the original OS before they can service it.
You can have the last response, since you'll not learn anything from this one and simply reassert what your internal beliefs hold to be true regardless of external reality. I leave it to others to read your future ignorant missives, I see no cause to read the same thing a third time.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley