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Yes, exactly, I can switch phones. Doesn’t seem like handcuffs to me.


There can be no free or fair market here. The barrier to entry for new companies to enter the phone market is just unbelievably high with all the patents.

Modern human communication, phones, are too important to be held hostage by just two companies, neither of which are acting in consumers best interests.

IMO this is the time that governments should be acting on behalf of the people, and not the corporations with the deepest pockets.


You seem to miss that you're switching the golden handcuffs for rusty uncomfortable handcuffs with the spikes facing inward.

"It's a free market because I have the choice between two brutal masters!"


I guess we're all wearing the handcuffs of not getting exactly what we want.




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