France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

[Steven Le Roux]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:19:46 +0100, "Alexey Feldgendler" <alexey at feldgendler.ru> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:07:23 +0100, Steven Le Roux <steven at le-roux.info>
> wrote:
> 
>> France is about to taxe smartphone which provide 3 features :
>>
>> - At least 128mo internal memory (neo will have 256)
>> - at least one touch/key dedicated to audio playing (what about a
>> touchscreen ?)
>> - mp3 or video playing
> 
> Neo doesn't have keys dedicated to anything except turning it on and off.
> A touch screen is a versatile controller with areas assigned to different
> features at different times, with no part of it being dedicated to
> anything in particular. So it cannot be said that Neo has a control
> dedicated to audio playing.
> 
They are discussing about conditions and taxe for less than these 3 cases (for example only mp3 playing hability)

And the screentouch case is the same for iphone I think... and iphone is clearly taxed for them.

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