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Comment Consumers Hate Change (Score 3, Insightful) 1243

by stevestrike on Sunday February 17, 2008 @11:23PM (#22458442) Attached to: Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

I've tried to setup several small offices with OpenOffice. Within a week or two, they are screaming for their Excel and Word. It's not that they hate free, they hate change! If it doesn't look and behave exactly like they are used to, they won't invest the time to learn a new product.

T-Mobile Bans Others' Apps On Their Phones 349

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 26, 2007 @08:35PM from the get-less dept.

cshamis writes "T-Mobile has recently changed their policies and now tell their customers with appropriate data plans and with Java-Micro-App-capable T-Mobile phones: no third-party network applications. You can, of course, still use their incredibly clunky and crippled built-in WAP browsers, but GoogleMaps and OperaMini are left high and dry. Would anyone care to speculate if this move is likely to retain or repel customers?"

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