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Re:Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims... by pjc50 on Friday December 13, 2013 @12:08PM (#6901574)
The touch keyboard lacks feedback but folds to zero size, which is its great advantage. And people are in practice getting along just fine with them, which is why the hardware keyboards have fallen by the wayside.

The main obstacle to boot-your-own-phone in the US is of course the carriers.

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Re:Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims... by tomrod on Friday December 13, 2013 @12:44PM (#6901782)
> The main obstacle to boot-your-own-phone in the US is of course the carriers.

Surely if it were profitably one of them would break ranks, right? I mean, we have intelligent businesspeople in telecoms at least occasionally?

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Re:Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims... by nitrogen on Friday December 13, 2013 @12:54PM (#6901848)
By this assumption, surely everything that can be invented already has, right?
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Re:Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims... by tomrod on Friday December 13, 2013 @02:33PM (#6902407)
Within telecom pricing strategy? Yes, given current technology.

One can go back in the lit to Bell Labs research in the 60s for all the pricing strategies. Jean Tirole fleshed most of it out with help by Jean Rochet.

Source: Economist, network industries are my object of research

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Re:Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims... by pjc50 on Saturday December 14, 2013 @02:18PM (#6906709)
It's very anti-profitable for them, because it removes their ability to suppress functionality of your phone in order to sell it back to you.

First rule of phone company: why market when you can monopoly?

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