Are cell phones being used to get people used to the idea of companies controlling what you can and

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The iPhone's Top Pros and Cons
By David LaGesse
Posted 6/22/07
Face it, the iPhone can only have so many folks swooning if it's got raw
sex appeal. This is one device that will appeal to both genders, leaving us
to ponder just what will draw people when Apple launches the phone on June
29-and what everyone should be wary of.
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What I want is something that can be used as a pocket computer that
dosen't force me to go through
some middle man to load apps on it. I want to load anything I damn
well please (within hardware capatability that is) without the damn
thing squawking "NO NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT! PLAY WITH THIS
RATTLE INSTEAD!" at me. I want to have full directory access to the
PDA (which this thing seems to
to be, simaler to a Treo or a Blackberry), and if it's not built in,
allow me to install a utility to do it, and don't
try to hide shit, or play games with me, or otherwise attempt to
thwart my attempts at accessing the files. If this phone can do it,
good, if not, I'll just chalk it up to another expensive toy for
overgrown teenyboppers
At the peice this is being sold at, I expect an uncrippled pocket
computer and no less.

<rant mode on> The one thing that really bothers me about cell phones
is that they are being used to get users used to the idea that the
phone (i'll call it a computer for now on scince that's what modern
cellphones basicly are) isn't really theirs, and that companies and
only companies have the right to decide what you are allowed to run on
the computer you bought, down to the very programs on it in some
cases. Anything else is forbidden, and anybody who tries to use the
computer for anything other that what the companies explicity says
must be an evil hacker or an outlaw. This is like the Trusted
Computing bullshit, but even more draconian.
<rant mode off>
 
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Rod Speed

zeez said:
What I want is something that can be used as a pocket computer that
dosen't force me to go through
some middle man to load apps on it. I want to load anything I damn
well please (within hardware capatability that is) without the damn
thing squawking "NO NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT! PLAY WITH THIS
RATTLE INSTEAD!" at me. I want to have full directory access to the
PDA (which this thing seems to
to be, simaler to a Treo or a Blackberry), and if it's not built in,
allow me to install a utility to do it, and don't
try to hide shit, or play games with me, or otherwise attempt to
thwart my attempts at accessing the files. If this phone can do it,
good, if not, I'll just chalk it up to another expensive toy for
overgrown teenyboppers
At the peice this is being sold at, I expect an uncrippled pocket
computer and no less.

<rant mode on> The one thing that really bothers me about cell phones
is that they are being used to get users used to the idea that the
phone (i'll call it a computer for now on scince that's what modern
cellphones basicly are) isn't really theirs, and that companies and
only companies have the right to decide what you are allowed to run on
the computer you bought, down to the very programs on it in some
cases. Anything else is forbidden, and anybody who tries to use the
computer for anything other that what the companies explicity says
must be an evil hacker or an outlaw. This is like the Trusted
Computing bullshit, but even more draconian.
<rant mode off>
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Just another utterly mindless conspiracy theory, comrade.
 
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