Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones [LWN.net]

Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones

Posted Jan 3, 2013 13:58 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones by djs_tx
Parent article: Canonical to demonstrate Ubuntu on phones

> The current business model of phones in the USA puts as much control of the phone in carrier hands as possible.

I can offer some hope, this is a reversible situation: in France this was exactly the same situation until a fourth carrier arrived (Free Mobile) with aggressive pricing and an offer without prepayed phone.
All the competitors had to react and now there are ~60% of users who buy their mobile phone separately from their phone carriers!

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