[ale] Another reason not to get a winders phone

[mike at trausch.us (Michael B. Trausch)]

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 13:14 -0500, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> But wait, it gets worse!  Put an SD card into your Windows 7 phone,
> and you can forget about using it in any other  devices
> ( http://www.ghacks.net/2010/11/13/windows-phone-locks-in-microsd-cards/
> ).  Heh heh. Just some handy ammunition for any of you talkin' to your
> friends about new smartphones. 

They probably enable the built-in DRM on the SD card, effectively
locking it to the phone, so that the SD card can be used to store
application software and ensure that the criminal-to-be who wishes to
control their own device is thwarted before they even begin to think
about it.

	--- Mike

--
Proudly running a fully unlocked Android-based G2 phone without any sort
of insane locking, thanks to scotty2 on FreeNode!  :)
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