Last week I wrote about Columbia Professor: Cell Phone Carriers Limiting Innovation and ranted a bit about Verizon’s silly policies on third party apps. Apparently, T-Mobile is playing the same game.
This means T-Mobile feature phone users are prohibited from surfing the Web with Opera Mini, checking maps on Google Local for Mobile, listening to podcasts with Mobilcast, and using any other form of software not pre-approved by T-Mobile.
T-Mobile cites meaningless “security” concerns as reasons for attempting to severely cripple the mobile software development industry, but their hypocrisy is painfully clear when you remember that these apps work fine on T-Mobile’s network, using T-Mobile SIM cards, if you buy your phone directly from a manufacturer like NokiaUSA.com.
What is with the cell phone carriers nickel and diming us for music, rings, videos, and everything else they can? Are they all going to make up BS excuses, citing security concerns, that prevent us from installing software on devices WE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR? Not to mention we’re also forced to pay for the Internet/air time that these apps use.
T-Mobile Disses Opera, Says “Get Less!”
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