The iPhone kill switch
August 14th, 2008 | by zittrain | published in Future of the Internet, iphone | 7 Comments
It’s been clear from the start that information appliances like the iPhone, tethered to their vendors, would have a kill switch — that’s just a subset of the vendor’s (in the case, Apple’s) ability to reprogram any aspect of the phone from a distance at any time. In a world of third party apps, that […]