Reply #4: That's capitalism, baby [View All]

Namely the last straw aside from the snooping thing, was the fact that they disable their OBEX therefore you cannot personally customize YOUR OWN PHONE THAT YOU PAID SERIOUS $$$ for and you STILL are told you have to pay outrageous service fees for photos, music, ect and to boot choose from a catalog that seems like it was chosen by some 15 year old who watches nothing but EmptyV. As a technology professional it infuriates me to see a company purposefully lock down a device in a way that it cannot be personalized for the purposes of generating that much more profit just nickel and dime across the board-that shit is pathetic especially considering that Verizon is as far as I know the wealthiest cell service.

What they've done here is what you say: Squeeze out every last nickel and dime from your wallet. Perhaps that is why they became the wealthiest cell service? They did it by asserting complete control over your phone. The basic fact is without control, there can be no capitalism. Private control over land, control over equipment, control over food (See genetically modified food), even control over music and works of art, etc.--it's what makes it possible for capitalism to exist, and if they had their way, things like public education and Social Security would be privately controlled as well, and those services would no longer exist to help people but, rather, just to provide a profit to the shareholders. If you can't pay out of your pocket for those services? Too bad.