http://futureoftheinternet.org/android-kill-switch-activated-some-links-of-the-week Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School Mon, 07 May 2012 17:36:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://futureoftheinternet.org/android-kill-switch-activated-some-links-of-the-week/comment-page-1#comment-19019 turn.self.off Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:48:05 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?p=1481#comment-19019 i suspect that apple takes the long view with apps that are not aggressive vs the users or the apple ecosystem. Basically, rather then deploy the kill switch, they can produce a update that will make the app unable to run. This as they will inform any other affected app of the change via the usual channels, but as the offending app will be unable to push updates, they are quietly killed by incompatibility rather then a unilateral kill switch. i suspect that apple takes the long view with apps that are not aggressive vs the users or the apple ecosystem. Basically, rather then deploy the kill switch, they can produce a update that will make the app unable to run. This as they will inform any other affected app of the change via the usual channels, but as the offending app will be unable to push updates, they are quietly killed by incompatibility rather then a unilateral kill switch.

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