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Originally Posted by ScotiaBurrell
I buy blackberry replacement batteries on Amazon less less than $10.
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I got a replacement battery for my Mytouch3g, for $5 off ebay. Took me a grand total of 20 seconds to take the protective cover off, remove the back, remove battery, insert the new battery, and put the covers back on. iPhones with their non user replacable batteries are much more expensive, require special tools, and take more time to do (either the time taking it to someone and having them do it, or you doing it yourself).
No, I don't carry a spare with me, but it was great having my ailing (as in, no longer wanting to charge) battery replaced in seconds, instead of spending a good amount of time and money to replace it.
On the DRM argument, please, obscurity is not security. While HTML is an documented standard, so is actionscript, and swf packaging. I can easily reverse engineer any flash app, I have tools that strip everything into its original parts nearly instantaniously. That doesn't mean I can break the DRM on the content easily. Knowing out things are encrypted, or decrypted, doesn't make it easy on how to reverse the process. For this, I use the example of the paper shredder. You have 100% of the content, you know exactly how it was broken up, but you still have to spend a lot of time and effort, as well as trial and error, putting things back together. Without knowing all parts of the equation, it will be impossible to quickly get to the content. For the papershredder, it where in the ball of paper each piece is, and for DRM it is the key used to lock, or salt, the encryption.