[tlug] eggs in the cellphone basket (was: Stop the FUD! here are some facts on the DMCA)

[Evan Monroig <evan.monroig@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> writes:
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> This is why keitai + iPod devices are the coming thing: they reduce
> the number of dongles by one for the great mass of consumers.  (At
> least if I were Apple and Nokia, that's the way I would be thinking.
> Personally I find it scary---that's a lot of eggs to put in one
> basket.  Especially in this anti-consumer country.)

Speaking of putting a lot of eggs in the same basket for the case of
keitai, it seems that this is the general tendency in Japan. AFAIK, all
three major cellphone operators have their own suica-in-keitai option,
and some Keitai can now even be used as debit cards (prepayed I guess).

I believe that the next step will be credit cards, and this is where I
think it becomes quite scary.

Evan