Planet Abell: Financial Times iPhone App Worse Than Trialware

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Financial Times iPhone App Worse Than Trialware

The Financial Times released its iPhone app Tuesday, touting it as free. But the not-so-small print reveals that this is severely crippled trialware app that could very well be useless in first few minutes you use it.

Until the clock starts again in 30 days, that is.

(Continue reading on wired.com's Epicenter blog)

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