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Not that I agree, but the carrier does not wish or intend to become a pipe. The carrier wants to be vertically integrated, where it controls the entire mobile u
by m0th87 16y ago
Not that I agree, but the carrier does not wish or intend to become a pipe. The carrier wants to be vertically integrated, where it controls the entire mobile user experience. iPhone and Android have chipped away at this concept pretty quickly, but some notions of it still remain, e.g. restrictions on tethering.
- axod 16y agoDefinitely. I understand the business reason they want to encroach past what people actually want. When I attended Google I/O last year we got given a free HTC EVO. Fantastic hardware, but the thing was so laden in Sprint crap I felt dirty just holding it. It was like going back in time to the days where you got an ISP and they gave you a CD with a version of Netscape that included their own toolbar, and all their crappy bookmarks etc etc Imagine if your electric company charged extra if you wanted to plug in a certain device to your home electric supply... Oh you want to plug in an xbox?? You'll have to purchase our special xbox electriciy plan for extra or we won't allow it to work. They provide electric, we pay for what we use. The same should hold for data providers... We pay based on what we use. How we use it is none of their business.