Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen

On 6 Jul 2024 13:00:23 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

Ahh, except that the spec included SIM Locking, with which all that
compatiblity can be made irrelevent for a user with a network-locked
phone:

All the jurisdictions I’m aware of had consumer-protection regulators who
saw to it that unlocking a locked phone was available at a reasonable
charge. Basically, customers got a discount off buying a SIM-locked phone
(compared to an unlocked one), and they had to repay some part of that
discount when it was unlocked, depending on how long before this was done.

Compare this to the US system, where there was no option to unlock the
SIM, because there was no SIM.