1 - Stand up to their principles and spend millions in court fighting someone that could buy them outright. And risking injunctions that would prevent them from selling.
2 - Agree to a pretty minor 'tax', that they can pass along to the consumer and be done with it. Most consumers wont even know its there and wont care even if they did.
These days the true 'diy' market is so small it wont make enough sales to make it worthwhile to allocate floor space.
It is sad in many ways, but times have changed and 99.9% of the consumers out there just want the latest shiny object, not a box of resistors and diodes..
And radio? don't make me laugh, except for the hardcore ( that wont go to R/S) no one even knows what amateur radio is now.
For those of us that do still care, there are places out there.
This makes me wonder if they'll go "oh, we unlocked the bootloaders but the carriers relocked them. Sorry."
Or worse: " we see you have violated your terms of service. You will be pleased to know your account as been terminated and here is your early termination fee. Oh, and you can not return as a customer for 1 year." "Thanks for choosing xyz carrier" ( sort of what comcast is doing with bandwidth violators )
Why would companies want us to use our new fangled devices?
It was all a scam, get people used to living off data, then start jacking the prices up. Just like a drug dealer.
Next you will see the caps start getting lower and lower ( on home wired connections too ), to the point that your bill goes up and up on overage just for 'normal' use. And you can forget about all that streaming media from the 'cloud'.
Who else around here remembers the $ for x dollars a month and HUGE overages without a warning? One was afraid to even connect.
Since when has what we want make much of a difference? Manufactures will put out what they want us to buy, and we will say thank you, may i have another.
With all the virtual monopolies, where else we gonna go?
The device IS open. The store is not. Their store, their rules ( actually its most likely the MPAA's rules ). I don't see a problem with it really. No one is forcing you to use their stores.
Now when they start trying to prevent you from rooting, or limiting where you can connect to, THEN we have an issue. Until then, its just a choice.
Bringing in non-managed hardware would be a security and support nightmare.
its one thing allowing a personal phone to hit your email server, ( since connecting to them often means you get some control, such as remote wipe and its no worse than offering webaccess to mail ) but its a far different issue letting people bring in their personal computers and expect to have them on the network.
Point a finger at your competition/enemy and make some unfounded claims about 'crimes against the state', and the police come in and take care of the problem for you.
This remind anyone of something? Like Poland late 1939?
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And that is different from reading a book or napping, how?
Until the law is changed, a free OS could still be open to an infringement claim.
Even changes in the law wont stop *claims* and the hope the little guys just folds due to the cost of defending oneself.
Just having some sort of reimbursement for winning if you are sued would go a long way to help out the little guys and stop a lot of the nonsense.
So their choices were basically:
1 - Stand up to their principles and spend millions in court fighting someone that could buy them outright. And risking injunctions that would prevent them from selling.
2 - Agree to a pretty minor 'tax', that they can pass along to the consumer and be done with it. Most consumers wont even know its there and wont care even if they did.
So, its a bad choice for them again why?
So the idea is that if this backfires as the campaign gets moving, 'hey i really didn't sign it, vote for me'.
These days the true 'diy' market is so small it wont make enough sales to make it worthwhile to allocate floor space.
It is sad in many ways, but times have changed and 99.9% of the consumers out there just want the latest shiny object, not a box of resistors and diodes..
And radio? don't make me laugh, except for the hardcore ( that wont go to R/S) no one even knows what amateur radio is now.
For those of us that do still care, there are places out there.
This makes me wonder if they'll go "oh, we unlocked the bootloaders but the carriers relocked them. Sorry."
Or worse: " we see you have violated your terms of service. You will be pleased to know your account as been terminated and here is your early termination fee. Oh, and you can not return as a customer for 1 year." "Thanks for choosing xyz carrier" ( sort of what comcast is doing with bandwidth violators )
I'm speechless.
That is the spirit comrade! Continue on your way.
Joking aside, this is scary. Real scary.
And nobody would only use a computer that they made themselves from iron ore and raw silicon.
He'd never eat only the vegetables he picked himself, or only the bread he baked himself
YOU many not.. but some of us might..
Speaking of, dinner is done.
When you are wandering around in a library looking at random books in the same section.. yes, it can be a better search.
You should try it sometime.
Will also offer *free* electronic copies of ALL their books, to go along with the paper ones.
Not sure about android, but on pc and mac it does video..
Sooooo you can get to your data cap even earlier in the month. What a deal.
At this point the speeds we have now can exceed your cap, so why bother with faster?
Depends on what theory of the universe you believe in.
That the world ends.
Why would companies want us to use our new fangled devices?
It was all a scam, get people used to living off data, then start jacking the prices up. Just like a drug dealer.
Next you will see the caps start getting lower and lower ( on home wired connections too ), to the point that your bill goes up and up on overage just for 'normal' use. And you can forget about all that streaming media from the 'cloud'.
Who else around here remembers the $ for x dollars a month and HUGE overages without a warning? One was afraid to even connect.
Like PCBSD does already?
Marketing only.
Since when has what we want make much of a difference? Manufactures will put out what they want us to buy, and we will say thank you, may i have another.
With all the virtual monopolies, where else we gonna go?
The device IS open. The store is not. Their store, their rules ( actually its most likely the MPAA's rules ). I don't see a problem with it really. No one is forcing you to use their stores.
Now when they start trying to prevent you from rooting, or limiting where you can connect to, THEN we have an issue. Until then, its just a choice.
ummm nah... let them burn...
Bringing in non-managed hardware would be a security and support nightmare.
its one thing allowing a personal phone to hit your email server, ( since connecting to them often means you get some control, such as remote wipe and its no worse than offering webaccess to mail ) but its a far different issue letting people bring in their personal computers and expect to have them on the network.
No thanks.
I agree its *limited*, but saying they don't have one at all is somewhat dishonest.
What is this then? http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx I used it just this week to install sql express...
And i'm not a fan of Microsoft either, but lets not use lies to attack them with.
The design was successful, as it was the price point and being ahead of its time is what caused it to move slowly.
Remember too, that it was still being sold until Jobs came back. It was never actually a failure, the plug was pulled prematurely.
Point a finger at your competition/enemy and make some unfounded claims about 'crimes against the state', and the police come in and take care of the problem for you.
This remind anyone of something? Like Poland late 1939?