Kill Switch on Google Android Phone: Is it right?
Filed under: Cell Phone Information, Cell Phones | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment
The kill switch on the Apple iPhone caused a huge uproar that is because they had hid it from us, and was not upfront. Google have said that they also have a kill switch for their Android phones; this means that T-Mobile G1 users could be affected by this in the future.
The Apple iPhone case is a totally different case to the Google Android, iPhone users did not know about this remote kill switch; however G1 users now know well in advance. But is that enough to stop Android users getting angry?
Google have said that if they had to turn the kill switch on one of the apps on their handsets, then they would fully reimburse the value of what the customer had to pay. So having a kill switch on the Android, is it right?
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Do you really think this “horrible, secret kill-switch” is a bad thing???
Do you think Apple/Google will just randomly kill apps (and lose huge sums of money) for just “no reason at all”?
Believe me… with all the poorly written, buggy apps that are out there… and not even *ONE* of them has ever been bad enough to trigger a “kill switch”… you don’t have to worry about it being “over used”.
You would have to write an *EXTREMELY* bad app to have it get killed off. (Like a deliberate virus app.)
… and Apple has your name, address, and credit card info… so they could very easily identify you as the virus author.