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Posted
19 June 2009 @ 10pm

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Nerd Factor X, Provocation

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At The End Of One’s Tether

Many carriers, most notably AT&T, but also others such as Optus, are getting a lot of bad press for charging their subscribers extra for “tethering” their iPhones to their laptops.

This does seem to be blatant gouging on their part, given that bytes are bytes, and regardless of whether they are destined for a phone or [...]


Posted
8 February 2008 @ 12am

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Nerd Factor X, Provocation

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Vendor Lock-In

I generally agree unequivocally with Bruce Schneier, but his recent column on vendor lock-in has me wanting to take issue with some of his points.

Vendor lock-in is real, but the example he gives of the iPhone is not a very good one. Why? Because it’s easy to switch: you call up the carrier (AT&T in [...]