Much further how? What I usually see is just some online stores' apps/links, N-Gage games, stuff like that, and all that looks quite innocent to me. No mother ships, no compulsory account creations, no nothing. Sure some service providers make branded versions with locked-out features, messed up firmware, make people grumpy -- not cool, but I'm talking about the normal, unbranded phones.
Posted Dec 31, 2008 5:30 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
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The un-branded phones are where cell companies lose money on. So they are focused on less and less. The way that they profit is by adding in the various mothership items to sell information about habits to other groups.