Winning Slowly

In which we start by looking at how to think about buying new phones… And then pivot into a discussion of major economic transitions. Like robots. Links Carriers dropping subsidies: “T-Mobile faces war of words after killing subsidies, contracts” (CNET) “Verizon Wireless moving away from contracts and phone subsidies” (Ars Technica) “Sprint to end two-year contracts - now here come the deals” (CNN) Motorola Razr “Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS” (The Verge) How Blackberry Fell (The New Yorker) MMS (multimedia messaging hack) on iOS: “iOS bug lets anyone crash your iPhone with a text message” (The Guardian) on Android: “950 million Android phones can be hijacked by malicious text messages” (Ars Technica) Xiaomi Windows Phone From the Garden to the City Previously on the show: 1.18: Keep on Keepin’ On Before You GoThe Atlantic’s new Notes (blogging) section, with “comments” via email. Perhaps particularly relevant to our listeners is their response to Chris’ email.