One good turn deserves another
I love that we’re in the kind of world where a gadget blog can write an open letter to a technology company that the CEO will then forward to his executive staff and respond directly. Not that he said much, but the idea that, as a fan of a particular product, you can write a wake-up call that could actually be taken seriously? Love it.
Of course, Engadget isn’t exactly random fan-boy world, they’ve got the eyes to make it happen.
I don’t, heh, but I still have things I’d love to say to the companies currently squandering my loyalty.
I want to make my toys my own. Give me open software standards and file transfer options. Make applications work together, for pete’s sake! (I hate that google calendar doesn’t let me make plans with a g-mail user and then track that, y’know?)
I’ve stuck with Verizon because of the user base amongst my friends. They use it, so I use it, but I’m sick of buying crippled phones.
I get a new phone in November. If I can’t upload my own ring tone, use always-on IM, or add software, I don’t want it. If I have to hack my device to remove restrictions on transfers like I did with my RAZR … I’ll jump to a service that won’t make me work so hard to get what I want.
tell me about it.
I have the MOTOSLVR L7c, and I can’t use it as a music player until I pay verizon 30 dollars for 18 dollar motorola software….WTF!?!?!?!
Once I realized that Verizon had crippled my phone by disabling options that Motorola built into it, I felt no compunction about downloading hacking software and re-enabling it, with a big middle finger to my service provider.
yep, exactly the same feelings that I went through.