Charles Arthur has taken a recent news story about a study that found mobile phones do not cause cancer and extrapolated it to a utopia for mobile content. “On a more positive note, this also means that the targeting of younger people (oh, hell, let’s be honest – children) with low-value, high-priced content can continue unabated. Ringtones? Pointless commercial text “chat” messages? It’ll be open season, with teenagers and their juniors right in the sights.” Ever the optimist, he sees this as a good thing…”We’ll have a generation that can spot a ripoff on a mobile phone screen before they’re ten. That’s got to be useful, surelyâ
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