Comments on: Cellular Companies Preventing Progress? A Wireless World http://halffull.org/2007/04/11/cellular-companies-preventing-progress-a-wireless-world/ distributed humor Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:37:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Tigerblade http://halffull.org/2007/04/11/cellular-companies-preventing-progress-a-wireless-world/#comment-7244 Tigerblade Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:40:15 +0000 http://halffull.org/2007/04/11/cellular-companies-preventing-progress-a-wireless-world/#comment-7244 <p>I'm gonna make a product for a dollar and attempt to sell it for $300k. If anyone complains, I'll just explain to them that that's how their cellphone company does business.</p> <p>This is why the mobile Internet has been so slow to get off the ground. Most people now have Internet-capable phones (I do) but are terrified of using the Internet for fear of the absurd costs that will be thrown at them for doing so. It's ridiculous.</p> I’m gonna make a product for a dollar and attempt to sell it for $300k. If anyone complains, I’ll just explain to them that that’s how their cellphone company does business.

This is why the mobile Internet has been so slow to get off the ground. Most people now have Internet-capable phones (I do) but are terrified of using the Internet for fear of the absurd costs that will be thrown at them for doing so. It’s ridiculous.

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