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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. Re:They won't care by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 0, Troll

    Face it. People (in general) are stupid in the USA.

    Right, because other nations have had more success with their master race eugenics. Fuck off, asshole.

  2. iPhone by Trojan35 · · Score: 0, Troll

    And you wonder why Apple went with Cingular instead of T-Mobile. The difference between the two? Apple locks you into non-crappy apps.

  3. Re:They won't care by kahrytan · · Score: 0, Troll

    They'll just see the flashy commercials and cheap phones and cheap prices and they'll snap up what they're force-fed without realizing they can do better. Face it. People (in general) are stupid in the USA.


    And you are just not figuring out people are generally stupid? People barely know how to use their Plasma TVs or DVD players. I'll bet allot of people just know how to turn on and off their plasma sets. Another exampple is Windows, it sells so big because people are stupid. It is the intelligent ones who use Linux
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