Unstoppablekem was being pretty level headed...
No.
About the "conspiracy", there is nothing crazy about it. AT&T had Nokia remove Qi wireless charging because of AT&T's ties to PMA. AT&T had them remove memory so you depend on their network more. Companies don't do things for no reason.
Picking a standard and then clearly stating to the press you are picking it is not a "conspiracy." at&t had explicitly stated that they have asked all manufactures to provide PMA compatible products. You may not like the standard they picked but that doesn't mean it is a "conspiracy." They felt they needed to pick something and honestly no one has clearly explained to me why one standard is better than the other. Keep in mind most people don't even know about wirelessly charging cell phones let alone care which standard is in their phones.
Obviously from a PR point of view at&t really shouldn't have done this sort of half step thing with the 1520 but if they bring a fully PMA enabled 1520 to market in a few months I'll be satisfied.
The notion that at&t removed memory from the phone in some convoluted plot to get you to use more bandwidth is absurd. I've used a 16GB phone for years and not had any problem. Most smartphones out there are 16GB or below and no one has died. 16GB + 64GB removable memory is way more than 99.9% of the users out there will ever need.
The problem is people look at phone usage from their tiny minority point of view. at&t is selling to the general public not a handful of cell phone gaming fanatics.
Let's hear your "non-conspiracy" explanation for the crippled memory, please. $5 savings in manufacturing costs maybe...?
It's been explained numerous times you can't just look at a parts list and say that's what a phone should cost at retail. If that were the case then the iphone 5s would cost less than $200 OFF CONTRACT and be free for everyone on contract on launch day. Yes the iphone 5s is overpriced in my opinion... but it's not
that overpriced.
Anyway keep looking at parts lists and waiting for stuff at retail to sell for $5. I don't know of any manufacturer who doubles the high quality memory in a device from 16 GB to 32 GB and only bumps the cost of the device up $5 at launch. I really don't understand the memory market but I'm not brain dead. I can look at mp3 players, smartphones, and now tablets and the same trend holds in all cases. That is the whole reason many of us have been screaming for removable storage for years. For whatever reason when we go out ourselves and buy the memory cards it's just a lot cheaper.
Trust me I wish it was only a $5 difference but I have to live in reality.
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