The announcement last week of the Android mobile phone platform created a great deal of interest because it offered up a new mobile model for those of us who are tired of being nickel and dimed by the cell phone companies:
Cringely has a different take:
Think for a moment of the impact a free mobile phone service will have on the mobile phone market. Why would I continue with Verizon or AT&T or Sprint or T-Mobile or Alltel or whomever if I could get the same or better service for free? Yeah, but the way to make the service free is by running ads on it and those ads would be contextually linked somehow to where or who you were calling and isn't that creepy, especially for business customers?
A free mobile phone for casual use, count me in....
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