“If you buy a mobile phone in Europe, you are not tied to any particular carrier. Yet in the US, all major carriers only sell phones that can only work on their networks. They sell them at a discount and then get back that discount through long-term usage contracts that are tied to the phones. Suppose all phones had to be sold unlocked, perhaps because these ties were declared illegal. Phones would be more expensive, but calling and data services would almost certainly be cheaper. You might see Nokia and Samsung operating retail outlets instead of Verizon and T-Mobile, with the Nokia person giving you a choice of carriers and handling the hook-up process for you. With the power of the carriers reduced, phone makers might be able to solve the hard chicken-and-egg problem that prevents us from using our mobile phones as payment devices, something Japanese consumers have been able to do for some time now.”

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Trying to surf the internet on a 1 inch screen with graphics that load as X’s and column and pagination that’s all screwed up, looking nothing like the real page, isn’t what I’d call surfing the internet.

Having 12 songs on your phone, and having to go through a 20 minute process to transfer those songs isn’t iTunes and true synchronization either.

And I wouldn’t call twelve keys (like the number 2 that has to be pressed three times just to get the letter ‘c’) a keyboard either.

Clearly your comparisons are a just a little bit off.

Trying to surf the internet on a 1 inch screen with graphics that load as X’s and column and pagination that’s all screwed up, looking nothing like the real page, isn’t what I’d call surfing the internet.

Having 12 songs on your phone, and having to go through a 20 minute process to transfer those songs isn’t iTunes and true synchronization either.

And I wouldn’t call twelve keys (like the number 2 that has to be pressed three times just to get the letter ‘c’) a keyboard either.

Clearly your comparisons are a just a little bit off.