View source for User:DZar/BlogEntry: 2009 March 31 21:22:34 CDT

I'm continually frustrated by the handset manufacturers and carriers who disable perfectly good functions in their phones for no good reason (except to feel superior, themselves, and lock people out of doing useful things with these devices). What specifically good purpose can come from disallowing users of phones (for which they may have paid hundreds of dollars even after rebates, incentives, etc.) to plug in their USB flash drives to transfer documents, music, videos, etc.? And why do the manufacturers of the chipsets that support these functions not allow anyone but "licensed" users of their products any information on the products so that we, the people who spent the money to buy them, can enable those features so we can not only read our flash drives but to possibly save lives by using the phones as an ultrasound scanner?

I'm happy to sign NDAs or license products so I can do this work but nobody seems to care. I can't even get responses to my inquiries any longer from these companies. The send me standard "see our website and if it's not there, you can't have it" emails and then pretend I don't exist. Had IBM done this back in 1981, I'd be blogging from an Apple computer - yes, Apple still does this to some extent and you can see how much it helps them! 

I'm ready to buy thousands of handsets from someone who can support USB host functionality. Others will follow me. Why does nobody care or want to do this? Answers, please... I know, I'll be ignored.