Re: Kieren, out of interest, how old are you?
That's because they can afford early adoption of higher priced tech before mass volume sales and competition drops the price. '-)
Posts by RHOmea
4 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Mar 2015
Amazon Echo: We put Jeff Bezos' always-on microphone-speaker in a Reg family home
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Email keyword sniffing? We'd NEVER do that!
Monday 5th October 2015 14:16 GMT
Re: If I paid £600 for a handset
Your anecdotal experience notwithstanding:
Google doesn't sell hotel rooms, but they do sell user data to Hotels.com, Marriott, et al. They have been publicly outed in the WSJ, and numerous other media / studies for "dynamic pricing" - up-pricing their offerings based on your data profile. You either accept that fact and live with it or you don't, but there is no arguing that it doesn't happen.
With FTC suit looming, AT&T backs off on throttling 'unlimited' data plans
Friday 8th May 2015 15:58 GMT
Re: Statement is still meaningless
Exactly. It's a preemptive PR statement that still allows them to to whatever they want, whenever they want. Just trying to keep FTC off their backs as long as possible while still throttling usage. It's a bloody corporation and as such it's raison d'être is profit. So why do people act so surprised when it does anything it can within the law (one hopes) to carry out its charter?
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