You can thank Nixon for his follies at the Watergate hotel for that

That is it! Throw Linguini at the oil spill! You, my friend, are a frikkin' genius!

who?

I dream of the day when I can use any phone on any provider network (legitimately, via simple sim change, subscription or other means). Imagine if you had to by vendor specific laptops to work on vendor specific wifi access points. Some of us are old enough to remember when ma bell sold the "recommended" phones for the lan lines in residences; hard to fathom, but yet we fall under this same model with cell providers.

Us freaks [read network engineers] who need serial (and now also usb) to console into routers, firewalls & switches on a regular basis. hardly considered anachronistic work for those who desire the ability to access the internet. Those "tubes" do not run themselves.