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He’s still an entrepreneur with testicular fortitude.
Steve Jobs and Jim Jones have a lot in common.
I don’t own any Apple products, but do celebrate their creativity and innovation.
Tomorrow will be the last day I use my iPhone. It's an outstanding product but unfortunately a $200,000/year client of mine has delivered an edict: either I drop AT&T as my cell phone carrier or he will drop me as his attorney.
It's a shame, given my love for Apple products.
Three years ago, I built all of the PCs in our house. My hobby is computer graphics, including 2D and 3D animation, and video production. I experienced a financial windfall and purchased a MacPro. Although I had recently built a state-of-the-art PC specifically for video and 3D work, your MacPro ran circles around it. I was hooked.
Today, there are two MacPros in my family, three MacBook Pros, and three iMacs.
Almost a year ago, after fourteen wonderful years with Verizon, I switched to AT&T to get the iPhone and was immediately stunned by the number of calls I dropped, the number of dialed calls that never went through, and the number of times I could hear the other party and they couldn't hear me and vice versa.
I don't live in the boonies.
I experience this in metropolitan Atlanta and on my business travels to downtown Chicago, WDC, Boston, and New York, to name a few cities. And San Francisco? At a recent national convention, the moderator told everyone to turn his or her cell phone on mute, then paused and said "unless you have AT&T, in which case you won't have any coverage anyway."
I began to keep a log. Over the last three months, I drop an average of thirteen calls a day, which is more than I would drop in a year with Verizon.
That, and my coverage area with Verizon was perhaps twenty times the size of my coverage with AT&T.
Do you know what it's like to be on a conference call with a half dozen people in a half dozen cities and have your call drop unexpectedly while you're in the heart of Midtown Atlanta? Do you know how frustrated your clients get when they go to the trouble to patch you in again, only to have your phone drop the call again?
AT&T tells me my problem is the iPhone. I've taken it to your Genius Bar where the employees politely test it and tell me it's fine. Then, unlike any retail store I've ever been in, they say "it's not in warranty any longer, but if it would make you feel more comfortable, we'll be happy to swap it for a new phone."
Kudos. They've done that twice. The first time, I called my wife as I drove away from the mall to tell her . . . the first call didn't go through and the second call dropped during the first couple of sentences.
I understand that Verizon turned down the iPhone initially, but, really, AT&T?
Wouldn't it be easier to find a couple of guys who run a cell phone company from their basement using three networked Commodore 64s?
I'll be back someday, but not until you kick AT&T to the curb.
Am I bitter? Well, I've probably chosen not to bill clients for several thousand dollars of time over the past year due to dropped calls and the frustration they experienced.
And AT&T did rank last in the most recent quality study of national cell phone carriers I read.
So, for a quality conscious guy, may I suggest that (and I apologize for the analogy), you've chose to bed down with a $2/night crack whore in AT&T.
I'm ordering some merchandise from the Apple Online store on Monday, but I'll be doing it using a Droid.
Flash is a resource burning piece of junk.
There’s a newish article about how Microsoft has sold 500 of its new phones.
That’s one per Verizon store, give or take.