Apple is looking more and more like the evil empire Microsoft with their latest moves.
However, Greengart said he's less concerned with the "heavy-handed and Big Brotherish" kill switch than the fact that Apple didn't disclose it in the first place. As far as he knows, no other mobile phone has a kill-switch capability.
I think if Apple just disclosed this at the very beginning people would have lauded it as a smart security application and wondered why other phones didn't have such a thing. Instead they tried to be insular and sneaky about it and ended up looking guilty. I think Apple really needs to dial back the secrecy. If they didn't have the passionate base of consumers and world class products they would have been widely condemned for sneaking around like they are now.
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