U.S. mobile carriers have an oligopoly that few phone makers can challenge and win. In fact, how many would I say "won"? Frankly, only Apple! I'm not sure if Sprint and T-Mobile "wisely" chose not to cripple their version of the Galaxy S, or if they simply lacked the budget to engineer a lot of new crapware like the other 2!
As much as I hate the worship of all things Apple, I do feel we owe them a debt of gratitude for bringing mobile phones into the 21st century. Without them, we would *still* be getting the same old, tired quiltwork of crappy User Interfaces.
That said, I'm not sure how long it will take to be free of the crapware. Frankly, I think the tech journalists need to keep beating this drum.
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