June 29th, 2007
Working Assets calls for iPhone boycott (updated)
There was bound to be a backlash at some point. The AT&T bashing has begun:
Working Assets is calling for a boycott of the iPhone. The locking of all iPhones to AT&T is unnecessary, and Working Assets has specific issues with AT&T — including their stand on net neutrality, their warrantless wiretapping, and their handing over of customer records to the NSA. They say Apple is locking iPhone users into a service contract with ‘a corporation whose practices seem to run counter to everything Apple stands for…
From Boing Boing:
Handset locking sucks, and AT&T sucks more: These people are criminal traitors who helped wiretap the nation, neutricidal maniacs bent on wrecking the Internet, and convicted monopolists besides.
Blorge.com also weighs in.
Warning: it’s not warm and fuzzy.
Jason D. O'Grady is the editor of PowerPage.org, which has been publishing daily mobile technology news since December 1995. For disclosures on Jason's industry affiliations, click here or to view Jason's full profile click here.
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