France : Taxes for video and mp3 playing capacity

[Richard Reichenbacher]

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On Jan 24, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Steven Le Roux <steven at le-roux.info> wrote:

> 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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