Sadly the carriers shutting down 3G unneccessarily to mandate people use 'modern' phones still upsets me. It's unethical. 3G, 4G and 5G were obviously coexisting just fine and dandy so the spectrum was there. But imagine the amount of tossed out phones that were rendered paperweights and amplify that to an environmental scale, and suddenly the claims of 'helping the planet' by not including a charging brick seem laughable.
What was hurting carriers by allowing people to keep using the phone they're comfortable with? It still angers me that they could get away with forcing people to upgrade to something they're not frustrated using. I myself would love to have a Nokia N95 as a daily driver given all I do anymore is text, call and play music. But sadly thanks to carriers being dicks I cannot. All the variety is gone and them shutting down networks for no reason (and without the free market demand) makes the only possible options the endless sea of 6.5" flat glass slabs that all look the same and have the same boring flat UI.
Carriers denying service because someone prefers their 10 year old phone (because it does what they need it to do) is no less a crime than denying someone electricity because their home still has knob-and-tube wiring. Even if they pay their bills on time. That's a crime called 'denial of service'
It's why I despise the idea of corporations. They get away with tons of unethical and criminal acts all the time. Small businesses used to listen to the free market. Corporations don't give a damn what the customer wants, and ruins the whole premise of free market economics. All they care about is the shareholders, and that means customers are constantly screwed over. But when all you got is corporations, there's nowhere to turn to, no way to 'vote with your wallet' not that it would help given we're all a bunch of docile sheep these days. If anyone tried what the carriers tried in the 50s, they'd go bankrupt since they'd lose too many customers. Today? No one seems to care. On either end. I'm a byproduct of a bygone era, and apparently everything I was taught in high school about economics was a lie.
If free market economics existed, we'd still have Kmart, Ames, Sears, Bradlee's and Woolco instead of the behemoths such as Walmart, Target, and Verizon. Explain how Walmart survives with the ethical issues and employee treatment issues while a far superior company like Kmart cannot? It makes no sense.
Corporations are also why there's literally no competition anymore. Lack of competition is a monopoly, and illegal. Lack of competition also stifles innovation. We only have Android and iOS today. We only have Windows and Linux. We've stagnated since 2015 with no real 'advancement'. Tell me how that's a good thing? Does everyone want to live in a stagnant, homogenized dystopia?
What was hurting carriers by allowing people to keep using the phone they're comfortable with? It still angers me that they could get away with forcing people to upgrade to something they're not frustrated using. I myself would love to have a Nokia N95 as a daily driver given all I do anymore is text, call and play music. But sadly thanks to carriers being dicks I cannot. All the variety is gone and them shutting down networks for no reason (and without the free market demand) makes the only possible options the endless sea of 6.5" flat glass slabs that all look the same and have the same boring flat UI.
Carriers denying service because someone prefers their 10 year old phone (because it does what they need it to do) is no less a crime than denying someone electricity because their home still has knob-and-tube wiring. Even if they pay their bills on time. That's a crime called 'denial of service'
It's why I despise the idea of corporations. They get away with tons of unethical and criminal acts all the time. Small businesses used to listen to the free market. Corporations don't give a damn what the customer wants, and ruins the whole premise of free market economics. All they care about is the shareholders, and that means customers are constantly screwed over. But when all you got is corporations, there's nowhere to turn to, no way to 'vote with your wallet' not that it would help given we're all a bunch of docile sheep these days. If anyone tried what the carriers tried in the 50s, they'd go bankrupt since they'd lose too many customers. Today? No one seems to care. On either end. I'm a byproduct of a bygone era, and apparently everything I was taught in high school about economics was a lie.
If free market economics existed, we'd still have Kmart, Ames, Sears, Bradlee's and Woolco instead of the behemoths such as Walmart, Target, and Verizon. Explain how Walmart survives with the ethical issues and employee treatment issues while a far superior company like Kmart cannot? It makes no sense.
Corporations are also why there's literally no competition anymore. Lack of competition is a monopoly, and illegal. Lack of competition also stifles innovation. We only have Android and iOS today. We only have Windows and Linux. We've stagnated since 2015 with no real 'advancement'. Tell me how that's a good thing? Does everyone want to live in a stagnant, homogenized dystopia?
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