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Biz Quiz: Apple’s iPhone Kill Switch

August 13, 2008

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Steve Jobs admitted the iPhone has a “kill switch,” a revelation that caused rumblings and much teeth-gnashing in the Apple world. For those of you Windows users like me who think “kill switch” is a good description of an upgrade to Vista, maybe this quiz can help you understand the fuss.

A iPhone “kill switch” means Apple can:

  1. reach into your iPhone and wipe out an unauthorized piece of software, or “app”
  2. have your phone notify the police if it detects you discussing plans to bump off your boss
  3. disconnect your calls every time you say “I never should have bought the first iPhone.”

Steve Jobs says the kill switch was installed to:

  1. “disable malicious applications.”
  2. “prove that I am king of the world.”
  3. “fulfill his childhood fantasy to create a ‘Mission Impossible’ self-destruct device.”

An Apple spokesperson says the company’s use of a similar kill switch in the App Store to kill the $999.99 “I Am Rich” useless software app was:

  1. a judgment call
  2. a way to prevent someone from accidentally making an expensive mistake
  3. the most fun since the HR department banned Bill Gates dartboards

Apple’s App Store team is not testing new applications adequately because:

  1. it was not prepared for the huge number being developed
  2. everyone wants to test games, no one wants to test gas mileage calculators
  3. they’re too busy downloading iPorn

When asked when he would use the kill switch, Jobs said:

  1. “Hopefully we never have to pull that lever.”
  2. “Are you feeling lucky, punk?”
  3. “If someone messes with more than one iPhone, it has a ‘serial kill switch’ too.”

(correct answers: 1-a, 2-a, 3-a, 4-a, 5-a)

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