Next week, Google, HTC and T Mobile will finally rip the covers off the much-vaunted Android phone, the HTC Dream. Known also by its slightly less pony name, the G1, it's set to give Apple, Microsoft and Nokia a major headache, seeing as it'll comprise a WinMo and iPhone beating OS, coupled with a Nok-slapping handset. But what you want to know is why it'll really shake things up. Read on, dear Stuffers, to find out.
Apple wields ultimate control over applications running on your iPhone. If it doesn't like an app it flips a "kill switch" that zaps an unpalatable iTunes App off your iPhone in a heart beat. At least that's the buzz today in the blogosphere about a line of code found inside Apple's iPhone 2.0 software by independent iPhone developer Jonathan Zdziarski.