Or maybe just Opera in general.
I own a Samsung Blackjack, and it probably comes as no surprise to anyone that Internet Explorer on it sucks. Just a horrible browser. Enter Opera Mobile, a really great little browser for mobile devices. I downloaded the trial version and gave it a month…good interface, fast, let me do everything I wanted.
So I decide I want to purchase this piece of software. It will make my life much easier, and is worth the $24.
I got to the Buy Opera page, tell them I want to buy a copy of Mobile for Smartphones, and it asks me for some info…including my “Device ID” which is evidently their method of DRM. By using a code specific to the phone, they can control whether or not I share the program by making it impossible for me to do so.
Ok, whatever. I can still move my install to another phone if I want by calling them, not perfect but I’ll deal. So how do I get the Device ID? By going to the “menu” function on the browser, on the phone.
Which doesn’t work, because the trial has expired, and all I get is an error message when I try to run it.
So…I can’t buy the software I want to use, because I tried the software to determine I wanted to use it.
Somehow, this seems appropriate again:
