On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Will Evans wrote: > ... precious little words are spent with what I consider, being an > iPhone > owner, the significant drawbacks which I have briefly mentioned > before on > the list - the biggest, most egregious, most heinous one being the > lock-in > with one of the worst networks known to man.
*All* of the wireless networks in America SUCK. A lot. The difference between how much they each suck is tiny, and for most people negligible. For every person who claims AT&T is the worst you will find another person who thinks each of the other carriers are the worst. Many techies think they can definitively distinguish the differences between the networks, and they may be right at some level. But the difference to the average consumer is (I would guess) largely meaningless. Which makes switching to AT&T, for many consumers, fairly easy. When you have a market in which almost exclusively god-awful companies are competing with each other (as it is, IMHO, in the health insurance and cable TV industries, and until recently in the retail banking and airline industries), the best of them has to be many magnitudes better than the others to stand out at all. So far, no carrier has come close, so they all still fall in the general category of SUCK. In short, AT&T is probably not much of a disadvantage to iPhone. Cheers, -Cf Christopher Fahey ____________________________ Behavior biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com me: http://www.graphpaper.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
