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		lapcat on Sept 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The boiling frog of digital freedom > Can you provide a source for your claim? "Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up" is literally a quote from Steve Jobs. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/01/steve-jobs-knows-bes... https://www.engadget.com/2007-01-11-jobs-confirms-iphone-is-... https://www.zdnet.com/article/steve-jobs-the-iphone-and-open... https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/0... https://www.wired.com/2007/01/why-i-want-a-locked-iphone-2/ Of course this just proves another thing I said, which was "Many people seem to forget".

cachvico on Sept 5, 2023 [–]

Interesting - thanks! Seems odd to imagine a userspace app could take down a carrier network.

OkGoDoIt on Sept 5, 2023 | [–]

2.5G and 3G networks were bad at the time, and many phone plans that included data had unlimited data. The only thing that kept them up was the fact that so few people had data-capable smart phones.

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