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The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman.

Easement

iPhone owners are up in arms about the fact that Apple blocked third party applications. Personally I think these people should focus their wrath squarely on the practice of SIM card locking which should arguably be illegal. I think the Brazilians have the right idea, with their anti-SIM locking campaign. As John Gruber points out, [...]

Model Minority

This NY Times story made me wonder: Do Indian-Americans really want to have a small vocal minority whose views diverge strongly from their own represent them? But then I realized, its the other way around – its this small vocal minority who want to speak for all Indians. Too bad the NY Times can’t tell [...]