UbuntuEdge on Indiegogo = FAIL

[40hz]

It's official:

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The market could use more entrants, whether they are hardware, software or service providers. From this standpoint it's a good thing. Questionable marketing has happened before and will happen again too.

[40hz]

The market could use more entrants, whether they are hardware, software or service providers. From this standpoint it's a good thing. Questionable marketing has happened before and will happen again too.

True.

But as long as the telcos continue to have a stranglehold on the hardware, and deliberately dumb-down what these phones can do to preserve their antiquated business model, it's mostly moot.

Compare a smartphone you get from ATT or Verizon with a completely unbuggered and not deliberately crippled version straight from the manufacturer and you'll swear they're completely different pieces of hardware.

[Renegade]

The market could use more entrants, whether they are hardware, software or service providers. From this standpoint it's a good thing. Questionable marketing has happened before and will happen again too.

True.

But as long as the telcos continue to have a stranglehold on the hardware, and deliberately dumb-down what these phones can do to preserve their antiquated business model, it's mostly moot.

Compare a smartphone you get from ATT or Verizon with a completely unbuggered and not deliberately crippled version straight from the manufacturer and you'll swear they're completely different pieces of hardware.

It's rather sad how the whole thing works. Consumers would definitely benefit greatly if there were real competition, and not the massive regulation and collusion that we have now.

The buggery in the devices isn't entirely the fault of the manufacturers though. The telcos exert a lot of power, and collude with the manufacturers to "compromise" on just exactly how they'll bugger the consumers.

There's a telco debate going on in Canada now. The level of insanity is deafening. And nothing that addresses the consumer is remotely relevant there, though it's being disguised as though it is.