| This smells of Anti-Trust...at least a little bit This situation reminds me of how Microsoft got in trouble by installing Internet Explorer by default in Windows, and made it difficult for vendors to pre-install other web browsers on their machines. I know there was a lot more to the MS anti-trust issue, but this was one of the bigger issues. I also know that at the time that MS had like 93% of the market so it made it a different as well, but the ideas behind it are very similar.
Basically they are saying "we are going to pre-install our App store on the phone, and remove yours before allowing the customer to have it. They can install other app stores on there, but we aren't going to provide instructions on how to do so." Sounds pretty much exactly what MS said about IE.
I like Verizon for their signal strength only...I wish one of the other companies would step up and not only have cool phones, but a decent network as well. |
