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Hacking the Motorola v265
phoric writes "Unfortunately, Verizon Wireless cripples their phones so that you have to use their fee-based service in order to add new ringtones, or to transfer the pictures you take with the camera. The Verizon logo conceals the date display on the main screen and covers over the top portion of the background, among various other corporate silliness. Selling a device that is intentionally crippled is just plain ridiculous. Of course, the only natural thing to do in a situation like this is to hack it."
Selling a device that is intentionally crippled is just plain ridiculous. Hey, Apple does this all the time and people still think they are the bomb. ;)
No you aren't reducind costs, you are just producing the 33k modem for the same price as the 56k modem, then you sell the 56k modems with a big margin and show why capitalism isn't all that great.
I'm not going into the software side of this.
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.