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October 22, 2007
Let slip the Wrath of Walt!
Over on our good pals at AllthingsDigital, Walt Mossberg has an interesting piece about the state of the cell phone in North America. In Free My iPhone, Walt rants against the current system...
"...it's intolerable that (the USA) has trapped its citizens in a backward, stifling system when it comes to the next great technology platform, the cellphone.
A shortsighted and often just plain stupid federal government has allowed itself to be bullied and fooled by a handful of big wireless phone operators for decades now. And the result has been a mobile phone system that is the direct opposite of the PC model. It severely limits consumer choice, stifles innovation, crushes entrepreneurship, and has made the U.S. the laughingstock of the mobile-technology world, just as the cellphone is morphing into a powerful hand-held computer."
Go Walt Go! This is just the kind of kick in the ass the cellphone industry needs. Let the Revolution begin!
(and just to rant myself... where the heck is the Canadian iPhone!)
Posted by Snaggy at October 22, 2007 12:21 PM