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>Some argue that making it legal to unlock cellphones could make it too easy for consumers to take copyrighted software between carriers.

My carrier does not have code on my phone, and my carrier does not need code on my phone.

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Locked bloatware it's code for them and they need it to increase their profit margin, that's the ugly part of this story :(

how does bloatware exactly increase the profit margin?

For those of us without smartphones, they increase the profit margin by tricking users into buying things. All of the software on my gophone is trial only, and it is extremely easy to extend the trial by accident. Why on earth would anyone want to spend $3.99 to have an extra 10 days to 'evaluate' the shitty software on the phone? And WHY would this purchase be recurring?

And no, you can't remove the trials.

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