Posted on 07/03/2007 8:01:44 PM PDT by angkor
welcome to the 20th century.
There is far more possible with a feature rich phone. It untethers you from the wall jack, I allows thousands of contacts to be stored in your phone, text messaging (sms) is a godsend when you need to send a brief message without all the blah blah blah. In addition a simple 2 gig micro sd chip replaces any ipod and can connect your phone directly into your auto stereo.
For one using FR, i am surprised by your comments. They could just as easily equate with saying who needs the internet, network news is more than enough.
No need for an iPhone to have problems with basic stuff with ATT. We just got voice over IP thru our cable company and CALLED ATT to tell them we no longer needed long distance service. A snotty woman in India said I did not need to have called since this would be done automatically and she insisted that I would still need a long distance provider. I told her nevertheless, cancel the long distance.
Surprise, surprise, I still got a bill from ATT a month later. I called and this time got a cooperative gentleman in India and he finally cancelled my service. But ATT got a month of my $ for nothing.
The horror, the sheer horror of it all. I can't even contemplate what he must have gone through.
As for "disappointed noise", that tiny little dose of reality doesn't begin to put a dent in all overblown hype they've mustered for this freaking trinket.
You posted a thread, you get a response, be a man and live with it without bothering people who don't agree with you with potshots in their mailboxes.
No wonder apple has the reputation of being the choice of girliemen.
What?! A Lexus dealer with no Starbucks inside?! I'm gonna write to my congressman.
Worse phone service on the planet? Try canceling Vonage. I had to call investor relations and talk to some dude in “exectutive response.”
Speaking of which, have you seen this: Go Away Paris
“Worse phone service on the planet? Try canceling Vonage.”
Curious, why’d you drop Vonage?
I’ve had a lot of static and hissing on my Vonage line, but I’ve attributed it to all the Ethernet cables and power supplies I have near the Vonage router (no way around it either). Bought a new cordless 6.8Gh phone last weekend and it’s the same, but now with a much improved quality of static and hissing. Seems to me when I first got Vonage (2+ years ago) it was crystal clear.
But the Iphone he bought is locked to AT&T network... no one has unlocked one yet (out side of Apple/AT&T)...And that just a normal cell phone to a carrier lock
Apple’s rom on the phone is also going to be locked and to get the other services of the Iphone working on an another carriers network is going to be a major “pain in the ass” hack....
> I never buy anything brand new, the moment it’s introduced. There are always bugs to be worked out.<
You mean like with Windows. LOL I still have hard wired phones in my house and a couple of the ones you can walk around with. The Mrs has a cell phone from way back when. It’s about the size of a TV remote. Works just fine.
They can keep all the new fangled stuff ‘cause I already have enough grey hair.
Invisib1e... I haven't the foggiest idea of what you are talking about.
I pinged the Mac ping list to your thread in a public posting to over 250 members which contained no sarcasm aimed at you but some mild deirision at the writer of the article.
I also responded to your Freepmail in which you said "Much obliged ;)" which I interpreted to be a request to be added to the ping list but was not certain. That's why I said in my return mail:
"Welcome to the Mac Ping list... I think thats what you are requesting, right?"Where's the sarcasm?
If I misinterpreted your request, I am sorry and will remove your name from the Ping list. Certainly no sarcasm was intended.
This is why you never want to be “the first” to get new technology. Let the company work the bugs out first, THEN go ahead (and it’ll be a lot cheaper then too).
Just like why I’m one of those who got a “free Vista upgrade” when I bought my desktop last year. I still haven’t installed it.
I see... despite the fact that 98% or better of those who purchased an iPhone had absolutely no problem activating their service, you would prefer to focus on the small minority who had a problem that took a few hours to resolve.
Were YOU one of those 2%? If not, why are you so bitter?
man, you need some fresh air.
I get plenty of fresh air, thank you.
Did you get out of bed on the wrong side this morning?
I again repeat... where is the sarcasm... especially aimed at you? I don't see any in the Freepmail we exchanged.
They know that. But they have to be first with the new gadget in order to write stories others will read.
I am still at a loss as to what has gotten you upset. I sent no "potshots" to your mailbox! Why would I?
The first interaction I ever had with you was when I received a Freepmail from you that originated on a different thread:
Re: iPhone rocks! For techie geek, it's a little dream machineTo which I replied:
From the invisib1e hand | 07/03/2007 7:07:21 PM PDT repliedmuch obliged ;)
Re: iPhone rocks! For techie geek, it's a little dream machineNotice the time signatures... you freepmailed me at 7:07 PM PDT and I replied to you at 8:16 PM PDT responding to what I interpreted as a request to be added to the Mac Ping list.
To the invisib1e hand | 07/03/2007 8:16:35 PM PDT sentWelcome to the Mac Ping list... I think thats what you are requesting, right?
Swordmaker
I get a lot of these... but they are usually a little more explicit than "much obliged ;)" which is why I asked for a confirmation but went ahead and added your name to the list. I see no sarcasm in the reply I sent to you. Do you?
Four minutes later, at 8:20 PM PDT, I pinged the list to Angkor's posting about the iPhone activation complaints which you seem to have taken personally. It certainly was not directed at YOU personally.
You then reply publicly on this thread and attack me, claiming I sent "potshots" to your email. That makes no sense.
I have removed your name from the Mac Ping list.
My daughter has a Boston Terrier; he has got to be the dumbest dog in Dogdom.
This dog runs away when you call, “Come,” he chews on tissues and swallows them, it takes him ten steps to finish a bowel movement, when he lies on the floor, he splays his rear legs out to each side just as an eviscerated fish would be flung on the slab before filleting; his eyes are way too wide apart and he weighs 44 pounds.
Never has an AKC certified four-legged creature been so unconforming and so unperforming in the history of AKC’ing.
But, this dog can chew a stick; can he ever chew a stick, poison ones, green ones and even ones still stuck in the ground. Stickball is his game and he is a champion. No fancy-dancy sticks for this mug, just a stick, plain and simple.
If this dog was a kid and I had more money than brains, I’d get him an IPhone and just watch the fun.
But then again, I go on EBay every now and then, trying to catch that ad I saw one late night for Darius Green’s Flying Machine.
At times like this, I wish that Bill Clinton was still in office.
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