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Placebo buttons, false affordances and habit-forming
Biting Apple
In default, defiance
Another charging opportunity?
Digital control round-up
Disaffordances and engineering obedience
Epson messes up my day
Inconvenience: deliberate or accidental?
Another phone business model designed to frustrate the customer
Locking users in by making it difficult to leave
Uninnovate – engineering products to do less
Some links: miscellaneous, pertinent to architectures of control
Some interesting aspects of built-in obsolescence
The illusion of control
Dilemma of horns
The Privacy Ceiling
Use of RFID in DRM
Ed Felten: DRM Wars, and ‘Property Rights Management’
Freedom to Tinker – The Freedom to Tinker with Freedom?
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