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I very much agree with this. The interesting effect is platform lockin because of unportable data. In the 90s and 00s plaftform lockin was a function of the av

• technoslut 15y ago
  >Will there be services for porting data between platforms? All of these companies, except Google, will do their best to block it until governments intervene. Even with Google allowing this, it will be extremely difficult to do so and virtually no one will go through the effort. What if a third party app you use doesn't exist for the device you want to switch to? Even in regards to carriers the average user considers it a bigger headache to switch carriers than to stay where they are, even though they're unhappy. Humanity, regardless of their plight, having difficulty adapting to change.
  • click170 15y ago
    Full disclosure, I live in Canada-land, not the UK. My perception has been that contracts with telecoms providers is largely a North American phenomenon, or at least, isn't as prevalent in the UK. IIUC, pay as you go is the big thing over there.. if only it would catch on here as well maybe people wouldn't consider it such a pain to switch carriers.