Just after the dust finished settling on Apple’scontroversial admissionthat the iPhone has a remotely activated kill switch for program , Google has plainly stated in their Android Market terms of divine service that they ’ve get one too . Like Apple ’s solution , Google ’s distant killing switch is ostensibly intended to protect users in case of malicious apps or privacy infraction , but will undoubtedly draw flak from user who desire — and in the pillow slip of Android were pretty much promised — ultimate control over what app they keep ontheir headphone . While Apple reluctantly acknowledged the existence of their kill permutation only after it was discovered by developer , Google has been relatively upfront about Android ’s . They ’ve even laid out plans for recoup users whose paid apps ( which are n’t even uncommitted yet ) are recalled . And as ComputerWorldnotes , a kill switch makes a niggling more sense for Android , as their applications are n’t really vetted in any meaningful way before present up in the app store . Retroactive vetting , though , is still vetting , so Android ’s App Market may be a footling more like the App Store than we originally think . As before , we ’ll just have to wait for the final verdict on this one from preeminentkill substitution expert Stephen Colbert.[ComputerWorld ]
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