Here's my point. When you buy a product, you should get full rights to use that product. i speak mainly of crippled features of phones that verizon sells. If you pay for the phone, you should get to use ALL features of that HARDWARE.
Almost every phone sold now days has a HARDWARE gps feature on it. If I am paying Verizon for a data plan and choose to download an application (like google maps), I should be able to integrate the hardware GPS on my phone into google maps. But no.......Verizon has crippled that feature on my phone so that applications cannot take advantage of it. Verizon instead sells a services that uses that gps hardware that I bought and sells it to me again as a service for $15 per month.
Another feature that they crippled is the ability to use your phone as a modem. Again, they sell a service for $15/month to allow you to hook your blackberry to your computer and have it function as a modem. This ability exists in the hardware and does not belong as a service (I am arleady paying for the data plan). For the record, t-mobile does not do this, and anybody with a data plan on t-mobile can use their blackberry as a modem.
Duke,
Exactly my point. I wasn't even thinking of their FIOS division (which I use). I refuse to pay for their internet security as a service.
Almost every phone sold now days has a HARDWARE gps feature on it. If I am paying Verizon for a data plan and choose to download an application (like google maps), I should be able to integrate the hardware GPS on my phone into google maps. But no.......Verizon has crippled that feature on my phone so that applications cannot take advantage of it. Verizon instead sells a services that uses that gps hardware that I bought and sells it to me again as a service for $15 per month.
Another feature that they crippled is the ability to use your phone as a modem. Again, they sell a service for $15/month to allow you to hook your blackberry to your computer and have it function as a modem. This ability exists in the hardware and does not belong as a service (I am arleady paying for the data plan). For the record, t-mobile does not do this, and anybody with a data plan on t-mobile can use their blackberry as a modem.
Duke,
Exactly my point. I wasn't even thinking of their FIOS division (which I use). I refuse to pay for their internet security as a service.