"Paul Miner" wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:42:55 -0400, George <george@nospam.invalid>
> wrote:
>>
>>Just think of the interesting precedent that was just set with the
>>iphone. If you want it you need to buy it outright. If you want to use
>>it you must sign a two year contract with ATT.
>
> That goes along with what the Sprint exec said a few weeks ago about
> wanting to get Sprint out of the subsidy + contract business

That's very different than the iPhone model in which there is no subsidy
*and* a requirement for a 2 year contract. I don't like that kind of
precedent one bit. Actually, considering how much of the device's
non-telephonic feature-set is locked down, without activation/contract, I
almost wonder why the FTC isn't up in arms over it (hacks duly noted).


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Mike