No interest in using Wallet but constantly trying to limit consumer choice is why Verizon will never be anything but a big dumb pipe as far as my accounts are concerned.
Thats your perogative, but you also have the choice not to use it. Just because one person does not want it, does not mean everyone else feels the same.
Apparently it is the consumers that didn't get the message. With the exception of Apple, Verizon has been doing this for years. They don't have the best phones, plans or customer service but they do have the best wireless service over the other competitors and at the end of the day that is the key. Verizon knows they can manipulate these phones and still make billions of dollars selling them despite the complaints. Consumers complain about the products and do nothing but buy these same products that they are complaining about but we still blame Verizon.
Just how 'blocked' is it? Are they just making it not show up in the market?(My guess is this) Blocking installation within the OS?(pretty unlikely) Or are they actually blocking the network traffic?
Apparently it is the consumers that didn't get the message. With the exception of Apple, Verizon has been doing this for years. They don't have the best phones, plans or customer service but they do have the best wireless service over the other competitors and at the end of the day that is the key. Verizon knows they can manipulate these phones and still make billions of dollars selling them despite the complaints. Consumers complain about the products and do nothing but buy these same products that they are complaining about but we still blame Verizon.
This isn't Verizon blocking the feature, so stop hating. There is a reason no other carrier but Sprint uses Google wallet. They have an exclusive deal with Google that bars other carriers from using the feature.
Verizon Galaxy Nexus cannot use Google Wallet, Sprint only | ZDNet
...in order to work as architected by Google, Google Wallet needs to be integrated into a new, secure and proprietary hardware element in our phones.
NPC? Someone's been playing too many MMOs.Somehow, I think their statement is somewhat dishonest, as NPC is the "hardware element" of which they speak...