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2011-06-23 , 18:50
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
If "freedom" is so important to you, than go and make your own phone for Christ sake. We are talking about consumer devices here, and no one is forcing you to use them.

You are acting like there is a human right to use a mobile phone - and - a human right to have access to a "open" ecosystem. Guess what, it will never happen. The very least you can do is to get a dumb phone and a tablet and stop whining.
Huh? Are you trolling, or did you genuinely miss his point by such a long way?

You seem to forget where the money comes from for all these companies (note: not charities). The money comes from us - the consumers. We pay the wages. We pay the R&D costs. We pay for the shareholders' dividends. We are the market force.

It is only because we the consumer enable the closed/money-grubbing model espoused by so many companies that it continues to work for them.

Given a choice between paying for relative freedom on the device you own and paying to permit a corporation to store a closed, ad-driven, non-customisable, license-ridden, DRM-infested marketing device in your pocket, are you seriously saying you'd prefer the latter?

Your choice... but don't tell us to dumb it down just because you are unable/unwilling to conceive of a world where openness could equate with commercial success and user satisfaction.
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