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| Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android                        |
|   from the open-in-its-bones dept.                                 |
|   posted by kdawson on Saturday October 18, @21:56 (Google)        |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/18/2112247 |
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[0]Technologizer writes “It came out this week that Google’s Android
phone OS, [1]like the iPhone, has a [2]kill switch that lets Android
Market applications be disabled remotely. But it’s a [3]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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0. mailto:hm [Email address: hm #AT# harrymccracken.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/11/0317209&tid=180
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/16/149245&tid=217
3. http://technologizer.com/2008/10/17/why-the-kill-switch-make-sense-for-android-and-not-for-iphone/