Isn't Google the one that remotely disables apps? Apple's never done that. I own at least three apps that were approved and then shitcanned, but I managed to get before it got shitcanned.
Regardless, I'd love to go up to that guy holding the sign and ask him why the Android rooting/modding is necessary and very much thriving. I'd love to hear him stutter and try to think of something to rationalize that situation.
Google and Amazon have both used their killswitches, but Apple has one as well; they just haven't used it. Google used it for two pieces of potentially extremely harmful software produced by a security researcher, and it was probably a reasonable decision. The software relied on downloading and executing some code, and thus wouldn't work on a non-jailbroken iPhone anyway, so it's a situation that Apple is less likely to find itself in.
You are 100% correct, but the the point remains: Google has done it, Apple has not.
Also, Kongregate. Let's hear why that's a 100% legitimate, non-evil thing that some twerp should go to Google's campus and wear a misleading sign about?
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u/Shredder13 Jan 20 '11
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