I think it's great that I live in a country where we have a choice of transmission formats, instead of that pesky standardization. I hope the EU figures out that what's important is not that the customer gets a choice of service providers, but that the service providers can choose whatever incompatible formats they want. See also: Sirius -vs- XM, Motorola -vs- Scientific Atlanta. Look for Coke and Pepsi to introduce incompatible bottles and proprietary vending machines sometime in 2010.
“The HD2 is a magnificent monster. It is a hulking, intimidating, massive slab of a gadget. If you think the device looks big in photos, it's nothing compared to how it seems up close.”
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I think it's great that I live in a country where we have a choice of transmission formats, instead of that pesky standardization. I hope the EU figures out that what's important is not that the customer gets a choice of service providers, but that the service providers can choose whatever incompatible formats they want. See also: Sirius -vs- XM, Motorola -vs- Scientific Atlanta. Look for Coke and Pepsi to introduce incompatible bottles and proprietary vending machines sometime in 2010.
Strange that in Europe we actually have a greater choice of phones and services though ;)