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Or, you know, there's more than one country in the world. I could flash my Nokia 6210 with whatever firmware I wanted, but I guess that doesn't count, because
by stavros 7mo ago
Or, you know, there's more than one country in the world.
I could flash my Nokia 6210 with whatever firmware I wanted, but I guess that doesn't count, because Nokia and Ericsson aren't American companies.
- mapontosevenths 7mo agoI may be guilty of the same thing you're mentioning (I'm in the USA), but my Nokia 6210 came with a carrier lock and I wasn't even able to visit websites via the WAP browser unless my carrier approved of them because WAP acted like a sort of mandatory vendor operated proxy that allowed them to see and filter everything the phone did. They would, for example, filter out websites about ringtones to try and force you to buy theirs for $0.99/piece. My experience with a Nokia 6210 was very much the opposite of what you describe.
- goku12 7mo ago[flagged]
- jen20 7mo agoIt was exactly like the GP described in the UK too. All-powerful carriers at a time when Apple was almost bankrupt, before Google was a verb and before Microsoft made phones that would crash just sitting waiting for a call.
- goku12 7mo ago[dead]
- reaperducer 7mo agoThat's very much a product of the American oligarchy And yet it happens in dozens of other countries that are not America. You may be surprised to learn that the whole world is not Europe. The colonial era is dead. with Apple, MSFT and Google at the forefront None of those companies had phones in the era we're discussing.
- goku12 7mo ago[flagged]
- reaperducer 7mo agoI guess that doesn't count, because Nokia and Ericsson aren't American companies. The discussion is about Apple. Which is an American company. But if taking discussions off-topic is what gets you off, have at it.
- stavros 7mo ago> Apple basically spearheaded the war on general computation. Before them, phones used to be more or less open, Apple cracked down on that very quickly.