Mossberg: Free My Phone
I’ve said it before, but now that Mossberg says it, people actually seem to care more:
This whole cellphone subsidy game is an archaic remnant of the days when mobile phones were costly novelties. Today, subsidies are a trap for consumers. If subsidies were removed, along with the restrictions that flow from them, the market would quickly produce cheap phones, just as it has produced cheap, unsubsidized versions of every other digital product, from $399 computers to $79 iPods.
The cellular business is a mess, and sadly the only way I can see anything being done about it is if the government steps in and forces change. Sadly your average user is too ignorant of cell phones and technology in general to even realize that they are being screwed, so they keep going back to the same company that has been abusing them for years.
Via: Mossblog (and I thought Project Silence was a bad name)
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