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T-Mobile Bans Others' Apps On Their Phones

Posted by kdawson on from the get-less dept.

cshamis writes "T-Mobile has recently changed their policies and now tell their customers with appropriate data plans and with Java-Micro-App-capable T-Mobile phones: no third-party network applications. You can, of course, still use their incredibly clunky and crippled built-in WAP browsers, but GoogleMaps and OperaMini are left high and dry. Would anyone care to speculate if this move is likely to retain or repel customers?"

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  1. Great Error Message by Zaurus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."

    So often appropriate. Tell me, is there a guide for creating these sorts of profound error messages?

    I suppose, "Sorry, only Slashdot-approved comments" would have been an even more appropriate error message for this article...

    1. Re:Great Error Message by Zaurus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Here, let me reverse my comment and see if it still gets modded "offtopic":
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      I suppose, "Sorry, only Slashdot-approved comments" would have been an even more appropriate error message for this article...

      The standard error message here is so often appropriate. Tell me, is there a guide for creating these sorts of profound error messages?

      e.g. "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."