Why don't operators want to add "suicide buttons" to their phones? Insatiable!

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords operator button function why handset maker
Last week, a foreign company on a number of major mobile phone manufacturers, decided in http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37255.html ">2015 year for all mobile phones pre-installed" suicide button "(Kill Switch), and other anti-mobile phone theft function news, aroused people's cheers. However, this is no matter in the technology or in the cost, there is not much difficulty in the basic functions, but only next year to become "standard", which inevitably makes people feel sad.      A function that was long overdue, but was shelved for a long time because of the greed of the operators. The latest data from the FCC show that in 2012 the US lost more than $30 billion trillion to users for mobile theft. In recent years, including Apple and other mobile phone manufacturers launched the mobile phone "suicide button."      The feature is designed to help users remove all content from their phones remotely after they lose their phones, and lock them out, even when they are repainted.      However, wired recently wrote that operators, for their own selfish gain, have tried to prevent handset makers from adding this feature. In addition to the development of second-hand mobile phone black market, the theft of mobile phones has also contributed to the growth of mobile phone subscription services. The stolen mobile phone is sold at a lower price, and the purchaser will then choose to subscribe to the new package business again. Compared to mobile phone manufacturers, the "Black Phone" trade fair to some extent eroded the interests of handset manufacturers, but will be good for mobile phone operators. In addition, no "suicide button" and other mobile protection measures, will allow operators to sell more "mobile insurance."      Foreign operators to provide users with mobile insurance, in addition to extending the phone's warranty, but also in the case of accidental damage or loss of mobile phones, to compensate users. Intentionally or unintentionally, for the above two reasons, operators have long been blocking the "suicide button" and other mobile phone anti-theft features launched.      Last year, the media reported that Samsung and other companies wanted to have a "suicide button" feature on their handsets, but the South Korean carrier giant asked Samsung to remove the feature. Not only that, the US wireless Communications and Internet Association has also acted as an "accomplice" to operators. They defended the operator by saying that the "suicide button" was not added because it might give hackers a chance to exploit it.      The suicide button can also be used by people with ulterior motives to remotely control the user's mobile phone. Although Apple, Samsung, Google, HTC, Huawei, Motorola, Sprint, Verizon, T and other institutions eventually decided in 2015, to each cell phone pre-installed suicide button and other anti-theft features, but this is not enough to ensure the safety of mobile phones. Given the profit-driven nature of the business, mobile Smart Device era, users up to hundreds of of dollars of personal computing product safety, or to be in the hands of the user.
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