On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have no issue per se with the iPhone or iPad interfaces. > > I would have been an iPhone early adopter and Apple would have me > locked in, probably with both phone and tablet, but for the fact that > there was no way I was doing business with the ripoff-artist company > known as AT&T. I'm still unsure how that exclusive partnership > transpired. What it did was cause me and millions like me to wait, and > it gave Google/Android time to catch up enough to have a viable > marketable product that now had pent up demand. Millions of potential > iPhone customers, had it not been for AT&T, were lost to what would > become their primary competitor(s) in the smartphone market. > Google/Android and now Samsung. > > It seems to me Apple didn't play that game quite right. :) > > Tom C.
At least you *have* alternatives. Here in Canada we deal with nothing but ripoff artist telcos: Rogers, Bell, and a few lessers. There's a well entrenched corporate/government complicity that has created a closed universe where the telcos set completely insane prices and consumers either pay up or do without. Since portable Internet access would be a luxury to me, I simply do without. That means no smartphones, of any ilk, for me. Meh. I have a four year old Nokia cellphone on a yearly pre-paid plan (7-Eleven), so it works out to about $7.50 per month to me. I've made fifty cents worth of calls in the entire summer, so I don't expect to run out before the next top-up, in 2013. If I had to, I could shift my Nokia's SIM to an unlocked iPhone or iPad. That's a pretty cool hack that gets the cheapest possible data rates you can get here, but if 7-Eleven catches on they may disable that trick. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
