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Each of those cases relies upon monopolies, laws against reverse-engineering or both. In a competitive market, cell phones that allowed consumers load sounds f
by xiaoma 17y ago
Each of those cases relies upon monopolies, laws against reverse-engineering or both. In a competitive market, cell phones that allowed consumers load sounds from their personal computers as ring tones would quickly dominate.
- randallsquared 17y agoExcept in the case where they're much more expensive, which is the case currently. Smartphones can generally do custom ringtones, right?
- kragen 17y agoI don't think they can be more expensive except because of subsidies for dumb-phones. It doesn't require any extra hardware for a phone to download software from the web-site of your choice, and only two pins routed to the outside for it to download from your computer.