Smart phones are pretty neat, but I'm still resisting. My son never leaves work anymore. On call 24/7... :-( Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
