It really is to Steve Jobs’ credit that he was able to wrestle his phone (mostly) out of the iron grips of the operators. Because that was the reason mobile ga

It really is to Steve Jobs’ credit that he was able to wrestle his phone (mostly) out of the iron grips of the operators. Because that was the reason mobile games worked this way: the operators decided what ran on your phone and the things you wanted apart from that were relegated to the java sandbox, take it or leave it. These days your operator controlled a setting on your phone for how many text messages you could store (on your phone). Pay some extra or be really nice and they changed the setting so you could store 100 messages instead of 50. You can imagine they weren’t too happy to lose that kind of control.