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| AT&T/Apple deal successful, despite haters' wishes People just love bashing large companies, whether it be AT&T, Apple, or any other large corporation. There sure is a lot of bashing of the companies that make a site like this possible in the first place. Talk about a bunch of negative spin on a positive story. Besides the cold, hard numbers that are undeniable, I didn't read a single positive thing in this article, explaining why the AT&T/Apple deal may be as succcessful as it is. Instead, it's a bunch of negative information, that attempts to make the positive numbers look like an anomaly.
The fact of the matter, is that people with actual iPhones, who have major complaints, are by far the vocal minority. Reading the articles on this site, one would think there were far more unhappy AT&T iPhone customers than there are. The reality is that there are more complainers without iPhones, then there are with them. As for the actual iPhone users with complaints, most of them don't consider the downsides to outweigh the benefits of the phone, and the numbers prove that. People constantly belittle the phone, citing bullet-point feature lists, and ignore the iPhone's biggest selling-point, its UI. The user experience of the iPhone is so good that, for most users, it easily outweighs the small number of features that it currently lacks.
As for MMS and tethering, AT&T is temporarily in a no-win situation. People are already complaining about dropped calls, yet these same people are also complaining about lack of MMS/tethering. If AT&T's network already can't handle the dramatic increase in data-use, stemming from the iPhone, how do expect it to perform with added MMS/tethering functionality? People just need to wait for a network upgrade. People act like these things happen overnight. As the saying goes, "Nothing is impossible to the man who doesn't have to do it himself." People can't even be sure the situation would be any better with any other U.S. carrier.
Lastly, haters always harp on being locked into a service contract. Why is there no mention of the unsubsidized iPhone option? Subsidized service contracts have existed long before Apple ever thought to build a phone, but it's just now becoming an issue. People can't have their cake and eat it, too. | |
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| said by Trollhawk:Lastly, haters always harp on being locked into a service contract. Why is there no mention of the unsubsidized iPhone option? Subsidized service contracts have existed long before Apple ever thought to build a phone, but it's just now becoming an issue. People can't have their cake and eat it, too. Because that wasn't available until late.
And then $699.99 for it... AND it's not unlocked. AND AT&T won't give you the unlock code for it.
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| said by Gbcue:said by Trollhawk:Lastly, haters always harp on being locked into a service contract. Why is there no mention of the unsubsidized iPhone option? Subsidized service contracts have existed long before Apple ever thought to build a phone, but it's just now becoming an issue. People can't have their cake and eat it, too. Because that wasn't available until late. And then $699.99 for it... AND it's not unlocked. AND AT&T won't give you the unlock code for it. ...and at&t will STILL want a contract for the unsubsidized phone. | |
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| said by jjeffeory:said by Gbcue:said by Trollhawk:Lastly, haters always harp on being locked into a service contract. Why is there no mention of the unsubsidized iPhone option? Subsidized service contracts have existed long before Apple ever thought to build a phone, but it's just now becoming an issue. People can't have their cake and eat it, too. Because that wasn't available until late. And then $699.99 for it... AND it's not unlocked. AND AT&T won't give you the unlock code for it. ...and at&t will STILL want a contract for the unsubsidized phone. I was working for ATT when the first iphone came out they did that crap also and everybody in the room, during training for the new device, shook their head in amazement that ATT would pull that kind of crap. If I'm not mistaken they finally backed down and didn't require it but so far on the 3GS I haven't seen anything saying they are going that route. I'm still amazed they can do something like that.
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