Although T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone with Google’s Android mobile operating system won’t be formally launched until Oct. 22, observers are busy peering under the hood and reading the fine print. One feature is certain to cause some comment: A remote kill switch that will let Google wipe out any application that violates the developer distribution agreement for Android apps.

Not lengthy ago, the discovery that Apple retained the ability to remotely kill iPhone apps (and was not afraid to use

it) sparked a sharp response from some Apple customers, in part considering there was no disclosure of the kill switch and considering Apple seemed indifferent to the fact that customers had no easy mechanism to get refunds for killed apps.

But Michael Gartenberg, vice president of mobile strategy at Jupitermedia, doesn’t think customers will have the same reaction to Google’s kill switch.

“The existence of a kill switch for Android applications is […]

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