“Do you ever get the impression your wallet is being relentlessly sucked dry? Or that consumers are being expected to pay for an ever growing list of subscription-based services that, in a less profit-mad world, would likely be free?…
Thanks to Apple and its US carrier partner-in-crime, anyone who chooses to buy a 3G-capable iPad now faces a third monthly bill for the one Internet that his/her tax dollars funded oh-so-long-ago. Am I the only one who thinks we should be paying once no matter how we connect? It can’t be that radical a concept, can it?
—Carmi Levy, “A bill too far: With iPad, AT&T attempts a triple-dip” at Betanews.
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