Hutchison Takes The Smart Out Of Smartphone
How many more mistakes is Hutchison going to make with their 3 service? It seems that they haven't done a single thing right from the very beginning. Their latest backwards (but oh-so-typical-carrier-mindset) move is to lock down the new Motorola/Symbian phone they're offering so that it can only run applications approved by Hutchison. In other words, they're completing ditching the immense value gained in having a supportive developer community by building a walled garden. Time and time again walled garden mentalities fail when compared to more open solutions. What they're doing is making sure that only those applications that Hutchison thinks is useful (i.e., that Hutchison can get some money out of) will be offered. This means that plenty of useful applications won't make the cut - vastly lessening the value of signing up with 3 and getting one of these phones. Found via MobileTracker.
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