| Speculate any? A whole article about the potential loss of AT&T's iPhone exclusivity and not a shred of evidence to back it up. I see plenty of reasons for allowing the contract to expire, but since when has either AT&T or Apple made a logical business decision or listened to frustrated, unhappy (potential) customers?
So no, AT&T's bad week has in no way killed the iPhone exclusivity extension. Unless, of course, there are unmentioned details that I'm missing. |
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 ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
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kudos:4 | It is speculation, but with that much negative press it would be smart of Apple to shop it around again. Remember that even though this is mostly AT&T's fault it spills over to Apple. It all rolls downhill.... |
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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
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Yarmouth Port, MA
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said by mlundin:A whole article about the potential loss of AT&T's iPhone exclusivity and not a shred of evidence to back it up. It's pretty clear that Apple is no longer making excuses for it's network partner, AT&T. At WWDC, Apple clearly went out of its way to show who was supporting MMS and tethering (and by omission, who wasn't).
Apple couldn't have been more clear had they led the boos themselves as the crowd noticed that AT&T was not on the list of worldwide providers supporting these functions.
The spectacle led to PC Week's article, entitled "Apple to AT&T: Drop Dead," just in case the message was still too subtle for those that haven't read the nearly 5,000 articles this week.
And while AT&T is the turd in Apple's punchbowl, it is Apple who decided to serve it anyway.
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by funchords:said by mlundin:A whole article about the potential loss of AT&T's iPhone exclusivity and not a shred of evidence to back it up. It's pretty clear that Apple is no longer making excuses for it's network partner, AT&T. At WWDC, Apple clearly went out of its way to show who was supporting MMS and tethering (and by omission, who wasn't). Apple couldn't have been more clear had they led the boos themselves as the crowd noticed that AT&T was not on the list of worldwide providers supporting these functions. The spectacle led to PC Week's article, entitled "Apple to AT&T: Drop Dead," just in case the message was still too subtle for those that haven't read the nearly 5,000 articles this week. And while AT&T is the turd in Apple's punchbowl, it is Apple who decided to serve it anyway. These are all good points Rob. I think Apple may be souring on the relationship with AT&T. When a bunch of people who would eat the peanuts out of Steve's shit boo AT&T, you can't help but believe there is a more widespread issue. My personal experience has been that it's not the iPhone that has problems, but rather AT&T's network. Although my sample size is small, everyone I know who had and does have AT&T, iPhone or not, complains about their service. |
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| Nope. My ATT Tilt with stock ROM has none of the connectivity issues that my friends with 3G iphones have on ATT's network. What does this mean? Well, for starters that although the 3G iPhone *was* tested on the network, it just barely qualified as an acceptable device prorated by the money they would make up front locking so many new customers into a 24 mo. contract. You can bet that they were aware of the potential for problems like many folks are currently experiencing. The revenue from 'happy' customers playing with a new toy outweighs the complaints they deal with. Apple does a hell of a job marketing which also helps a great deal regardless of how poorly they might perform vs other phones. |
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1 edit | Nope. My ATT Tilt with stock ROM has none of the connectivity issues that my friends with 3G iphones have on ATT's network. Not my experience at all. All the negative press surrounding the dropped calls on the iPhone 3G was fantastic, because it put a big spotlight on all the problems we'd had for years with our Samsung Blackjack and 8525.
With both phones I had to find registry hacks or utilities to lock the radio in whatever mode it was I wanted to use - if I wanted data I needed to lock it to 3G because it would revert to Edge with perfectly good 3G signals available. If I was in motion I needed to lock it in Edge mode because any 3G/Edge handoffs came with a high probability of a dropped call.
Unsurprisingly, when I got the iPhone 3G, these problems remained exactly the same. I couldn't lock the phone into 3G data mode, but I could at least set Edge mode for voice reliability.
It seemed to force AT&T to deal with the problem, and things are significantly better now than they ever were when I used the Blackjack. I can leave the phone in 3G mode and actually make it 30 miles to my mother's without dropping a call. I've never been able to do that before. And more often than not, I'm in 3G mode, not Edge mode.
I'm mostly disappointed in AT&T's lack of tower deployment. There are some well populated areas of LA that have virtually no coverage. I spend the majority of my time on the fringes of AT&T's service area, and the iPhone is definitely no worse than other phones I've used.
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| FYI- Your part of CA is notorious for poor service. It's much better in other parts of the U.S. |
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