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The movies have taught me to think about the clandestine applications for this technology.

I just want to mention that you guys in Europe and Rest of World get features before those of us in the US. For example, tethering/hotspot – anything that AT&T can do to prevent us from having the features you get, they do.

Apple has never been afraid of taking away features in a total revamp release.

Evidence:
Final Cut X
Quicktime Player X

Apple is also not afraid of shipping less features than people expect.
See: iPhone 2007, cut/copy/paste or MMS.

Apple doesn’t believe hobbling a current phone with less functionality causes people to leave iPhone in significant numbers.
See: iOS 4.x on iPhone 3G performance. Some iPhone 3G owners reverted back to iOS 3.1.3. Some went to Android. Others upgraded their phone. Those that departed the platform didn’t hurt Apple in a large enough way to matter.

Apple will release whatever meets Apple’s goals. It’s entirely possible that the experience they release may have less functionality, but will be refined in everything that it attempts to do.

They also need to figure in taxes. They’ll have to pay taxes. And employees.

I’m not sure what you’re referring to: there was no offer I know of to upgrade to the standard 10.1. It’s possible I missed it, possible they didn’t publicize it.

It’s not just boot loader unlock.

It’s sim slot unlock.

It’s roaming fees, domestic and international.

It’s the hostility to customers on a grandfathered unlimited plan using 2GB when you have a 3GB plan in place.

It’s charging hundreds to thousands for a plan overage instead of billing the next higher plan rate for that month.

It’s sending paper bills for ridiculous amounts. 0.00? 0.25? And then expecting me to pay postage, or charging a fee to pay online?

It’s opaque billing practices. SunCom (eaten up by TMO) had this right: two plans, and all the fees were calculated within the advertised price – what you signed up for was what you paid.

Every step of the way, the carrier treats the customer in a hostile manner. If they were doing it right, I wouldn’t be thinking about leaving to either of the other badly behaving players.

Someday, we’re going to look back and say, “I wish we had moved quicker” to kill AT&T.

Companies that are directly hostile to their customers deserve to go out of business.

When Palm sold the BeOS property to ACCESS, ACCESS did have a version running on a mobile phone. Imagine if you will, a touchscreen phone will all the goodness of BeOS threading running in the background, apps in the foreground.

We very nearly had iOS/Android style devices, years earlier. Instead, we had to wait for iOS and Android to get phone multitasking with decent email and browsers.

I want someone to take Haiku and turn it into a mobileOS. Yes, I know. Fool’s errand. But still, the same things I like about the idea of open source WebOS would exist in such a thing.

Samsung Tab 10.1, Google i/o version, no touchwiz preinstalled. No 4.x update available. no XDA.

At all.

Credibility? They gave that up when they decided to not release Honeycomb in the open. It’s open when they say it’s open, and closed when they avoid releasing the source (in practice, obviously).

The backlight tube could be made to be user serviceable if that was a design goal. It used to be a long CCFL. Now it’s an LED array. Still, removal and reinsertion isn’t impossible if it’s intended by design.

My parents built the family tv from a Healthkit when I was growing up.