Robert A. Uhl

Why ringtones?

David Pogue asks a cogent question: why do people buy ringtones? It’s an amazingly stupid thing to do. Almost any song one buys for use as a ringtone one already has as in Ogg Vorbis, MP3, AAC or some other format; why pay an extra $3 a year or $2.50 a month or whatever insanely expensive rate your phone company charges? You’re just paying for the privilege of playing something you already own!

Further proof that mobile phones cause brain damage, as though more were needed.


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