That's not the same thing at all; if you had installed Firefox through Microsoft's own (imaginary) application store, and it was pulled because of a hypothetical catastrophic security flaw, and the terms and conditions of the (imaginary) application store specifically stated that Microsoft had the right to this, then yes it would be the same thing.
The only applications that Google can remotely pull from an Android device are applications that were installed via the Android Market. Applications that are installed via alternate application stores or directly via an
Crap, I buggered up the app store links:
Just to clarify; Google nuked two applications that had been distributed via Android Market, which they explicitly reserve the right to do via their Terms Of Service (see section 2.4).
However, if you don't like these terms there is nothing that stops you from downloading applications from alternative sources and installing them on your Android device - there are a number of alternate Android application stores like SlideMe and AndAppStore for example, not to mention downloading
Besides, what are they supposed to do if there are malicious applications on Android Market? Pull them and leave affected users with crap on their devices?
Oh well, I'm perfectly happy with my HTC Magic running Cyanogenmod 5.0.8 downloaded and installed via Clockworkmod ROM Manager, which itself was downloaded from Android Market.
FYI, tidy itself can do the job; just use
tidy -xml
Failing that, the excellent xmlstarlet is a great tool to have around - it's useful for formatting, querying or even editing XML documents straight from the command line
Personally, I think that the success of the iPod range can be squarely laid at the all pervasive and, dare I say it, cool advertising campaign that accompanied the product. It wasn't sold as a box of electronics that could easily play your favourite music, it was promoted and sold as a lifestyle choice.
Of course, the general media picked up on this new device and as far as they were concerned, the iPod was the first device of it's kind and merely added to the (very clever) Apple marketing campaign.
You have to wonder if Diamond had marketed their Rio in the same way whether 'Rio' would be the generic tag that the great unwashed use for MP3 players rather than iPod.
when they modernized it, then tried to appeal to a younger market they shut out us die-hard Doctor Who fans from the 1970's and 1980's
Speak for yourself; I would categorize myself as a 'die-hard' fan from the 70s - 80s - I had shelves of the Target novelisations, and have even introduced my kids to the earlier Doctors (they particularly love the Peter Davison era), and I've absolutely loved the rebooted series. Yes, there have been some crap episodes (Fear Her stands out as being particularly awful), but there were some truly atrocious serials before (Time And The Rani and Underworld immediately spring to mind). I, for one, haven't been 'shut out' at all.
Think carefully, the problem isn't that the administrator is "unqualified" the only qualification they need is the ability to notice that something is wrong.
But that's the problem isn't it? Most clueless users that I know (they're only clueless in the IT sense, and regard their computer as a tool and possibly something to play a few games on as well) would have no idea that something was wrong with their machine. It could happily be running as part of a botnet, but they'd be blissfully unaware of the fact.
Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. -- James Blish