Trash your rights ! Buy the iPhone ! ... Oh, wait !

As you have definitely read several times over (and over), buying an iphone is not exactly a smart move for any person respecting their rights and freedom. By rights and freedom, I mean something as simple as being able to access a mail/ poem/ blog post that you wrote whenever you want to.

Now with smartphones looming as the personal computer of tomorrow, there is one company that cannot be left behind in the business of pinning down the smartphone population of tomorrow. You guessed it right, it is none other than Micro$oft who has come out with a ~500 M$ ad campaign behind the Windows 7 Phone .

What is different this time is I think Win 7 Phone is facing a more informed customer base that already has experienced what microsoft is (via windows etc) and what it is not, i.e., choice in the marketplace and open platforms. Apart from the very valid technical and quality reasons why people are not buying it, there is an important perspective about asserting digital rights which is why Win 7 should be as far as iphone from the shopping list of any well-informed tech buyer.

None can state it better than the FSF who have been actively promoting campaigns for preserving consumer rights and privacy in this space. Their recent report is about Win 7 Phone - read on and spread the goodness !

Windows 7 Phone Series: Another proprietary device designed to trash your rights.

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