February 25, 2004
Devious: Remove Ability to Save Photos to Memory Card
Not sure if this will acutually happen, but Alan Reiter reports that cellular operators are going to require that camera phone users transmit photos only wirelessly via MMS rather than also being able to save photos on memory cards.
And Reiter is furious: "The harm to consumers is so obvious that I'm not even going to discuss it! But it also could harm the cellular operators. Although I'm not a fan of the intelligence of the human race (I definitely am not a "man of the people" -- nor do I want to be), users will quickly learn that they can't save photos to a memory card -- when other cellular operators don't disable this feature."
I doubt operators would be so foolish..it will be akin to Microsoft asking its users to send files to each other via IM, and not other method...
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