When a company owns a network such as AT&T or T-Mobile, they have to maintain this network, and when it is entirely distributed and something in the middle of it is causing issue, they cant just send an IT guy in to pull the LAN. I personally believe that as their network that you pay for access to, not pay for a share of ownership of, it is their responsibility to maintain that network for the good of ALL customers.

So if I decide to install the AndroidSDK, and in the middle of my calculator application I have a kill timer that in 6 months from now all my apps conduct a DDOS attack on T-Mobile’s network, that app should be remotely killed. 90% of the customers with the bad phones wouldnt know otherwise and the few remaining, if they got pissed off, then who cares. Its the other millions of customers who didnt have compromised phones who would be pissed off if they didnt have access to a service they were paying for that i would want to take care of first.