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Re:FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection by jacquesm on Sunday August 02, 2009 @05:04AM (#737237)
It's not really comparable, sizewise Microsoft was much bigger than netscape at the time, and the only route to the desktop was through microsoft. The iphone is not a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination, even though the 'hip' people all seem to have them.

(hm, the implicit conclusion is that I'm not hip...)

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Re:FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection by stevecooperorg on Thursday August 06, 2009 @05:33AM (#745092)
Not the same size, but vastly more controlling. On a windows machine you could always install netscape. On an iPhone you have to download apps only from apple-approved sources.

I suppose the question is whether the concerns of one marketplace (handsets) should override theneed of another (apps). As someone who hasalready bought an iPhone for what is a considerable amount of money, I don't like the turn towards crippling a product I thought was mine.

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