Rene Ritchie at iMore: Though T-Mobile remains the only major carrier in the US without an official iPhone in their lineup, now that AT&T is officially unlocking eligible, off-contract iPhones, T-Mobile is welcoming them with open arms — and cheap family plans. T-Mobile already had over 1 million unofficially unlocked iPhones on their network, and [...]
Daniel Jalkut: Instagram customers who feel betrayed: you either pay for a product, or it pays for you. Twitter is going the same way, eventually. In the world of VC-funded services, this is the cold, hard truth.
David Smith’s InstaBackup app looks like a nice way to grab all your hipstery, filter-laden photos before Facebook sells them to China for a profit. via @mpanzarino
If RIM calls your ecosystem a cesspool, something’s wrong.
Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram: On Tuesday we launched Instagram for Android, and it’s had a fantastic response so far. The last few weeks (on the infrastructure side) have been all about capacity planning and preparation to get everything in place, but on launch day itself the challenge is to find problems quickly, get to [...]
Mark Hattersley at Macworld UK: BlackBerry’s woes continue after a celebrity party, thrown by the company last night to celebrate BBM, ended in a vicious stabbing that forced police to lock celebrities inside the club and BlackBerry to cancel the event.
Depressing is right. Why can’t they whip up some awesome new filters and charge some money for them?
Molly Wood: Moscow-based I-Free and its app Girls Around Me crystallized the online privacy debate this week, and, I suspect, will begin the end of our long era of digital naivete. I think anyone naive enough to think that the Girls Around Me thing is “the end of Internet innocence” is living under a rock.
