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Knowing what you know now about the recently released iPhone, how would you rate it on a scale of 0 to 10?
1/1: Knowing what you know now about the recently released iPhone, how would you rate it on a scale of 0 to 10?
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Quick impressions
Here's an email I wrote to my brother, detailing my first impressions of an iPhone after playing with one on an airplane (no radios turned on):
Decent device but cannot stomach AT&T!
I was interested in the iPhone until I learned it would only be available from SB^H^H "the new" AT&T. I despise AT&T's corporate policies, like turning consumers' information over to the National Security Agency without warrants, their efforts to wipe out net neutrality, the close-to-100% Republican giving of their new chairman, and lousy customer service record including forcing "upgrades" during the old AT&T Wireless->Cingular takeover (yes, much less egregious than the previous threats to our national liberty!)
Once I can get an iPhone and use it with someone other than AT&T I'll be much more interested in the device. Sign the petition to unlock the iPhone from this evil company: http://actforchange.workingassets.com/campaign/iphone
Excellent product tied to a phone service I will NEVER use
I don't have any political issues with AT&T, though I probably would if I studied them long enough. I have just been disgusted with their customer service for over two decades. Neither did I like Cingular, before they were further soiled by AT&T. I'm sure that Apple will be quite successful with the iPhone even if they never spread the love to those of us who prefer CDMA, but this is one Apple fanatic who will not own one unless or until that day comes.
Decent device but cannot stomach AT&T!
I agree with wanting more choice, but your petition is a waste of time. Apple is committed to a five-year exclusive deal with AT&T, isn't it? What do you expect them to do for you? It's too late.
Petition Is Too Late?
The petition is late, but it still might serve a purpose. Apple could take the results to AT&T to argue how many more folks they could sign up if AT&T would just improve its terms of service, et cetera.
It's All a CONSPIRACY
And the moon landings were fake, 9/11 was planed by Bush and Clinton never had sex with that women....
AT&T
The corporate culture at AT&T does not understand the importance of customer care. They seem fanatical to a flaw about the short term "what is good for the company is good enough for the customer;" they don't understand that, in the long run, customer loyalty is better than company policy. (Especially when the company's policies cause so much customer dissatisfaction)
AT&T
Indeed. I hated Cingular's arrogant predatory practices, SBC's insistence on trying to force antiquated phone setups on most of their customers because they didn't want "competition".... and their "award winning" customer service is like a Soviet Gulag, without the scenic view. (And fewest dropped calls? My eye. They obviously haven't been 3 feet outside of any major city...or IN some of them...)
AT&T
From what I've read, Jobs & Co. went to Verizon first. Verizon turned them down. (Verizon is, afterall, tied to the MSNetwork which tries to inhibit Mac user experience on their websites.)
AT&T
From what I understand, ATT was the only company that allowed Apple near total control over what the iPhone's interface was going to look like. I hope it doesn't turn out that was the only bargaining chip they had to offer.
No 3G, it's archaic.
How can it be anywhere near perfect when it lacks the most basic building block of them all: UMTS/"3G"? What's the point of implementing all these bandwidth-hungry applications if you fail to include a fallback connectivity solution for when there are no WiFi networks available?
Doesn't take a lot
It doesn't take a lot of experience to understand this is a great device. And FWIW: this would be impossible - and a total kludge - if they tried to do this with anything other than Openstep. Windows wouldn't work and MacOS wouldn't work either. If anyone needed any further proof of just how ahead of the field Openstep is, this is it and they should now be convinced.
9/10
As a hardware device it's brilliant. As an implementation of OS X it's great. But its security model sucks. I can't believe the same geniuses who designed it and wrote it work under the same roof as the reckless suits who left it unprotected.
An 8
I'd like to give it a 10 because I think the technology is a 1000 but they really shot it down with bad security so I still can't give it better than 8. |
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