I’m an iPhone 3G user nowhere near finished with his two-year contract and I’d like to pay the new customer price for the iPhone 3G S, but I can’t, and that’s fair. Here’s why:
The iPhone doesn’t cost about $300, it costs about $600. When you sign up for a two-year contract, AT&T is subsidizing the [...]
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Open source has long been thought of as the rise of the computer literate, the programmers of the world, working in harmony to create solutions against proprietary and monopolistic companies: building a better world together, but I would argue this isn’t the full view.
The open source we see in news headlines, making splashes in the [...]
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Tagged: apple, business, ibm, linux, novell, open source, programming
The EFF is reporting the new buttonless iPod Shuffle 3G uses a form of DRM authentication with its new headphone specification, necessitated with Apple’s decision to move all player controls off the device itself and onto the earbuds. The EFF claims this is entirely unnecessary and will allow Apple to invoke the DMCA against third-party [...]
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Tagged: apple, drm, earbuds, eff, headphones, ipod, market control, quality control, shuffle