gizmodo.com — The iPhone is super-hyped, but is it worth getting if it means giving money to the privacy-hating, monopoly-having bastards at AT&T? Gizmodo examines why it might be worth skipping the iPhone to maintain a clear conscience.
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Closed AccountJun 23, 2007
T-Mobile... LOVE IT!
hangenderJun 23, 2007
Hold on now, we must support Apple at all costs! Apple = messenger or God and harbinger of goodness. AT&T is just a small price to pay for Apple's continuing existence. And remember, Steve Jobs > God.-Sign, MacFanBoy
pasteeaterJun 23, 2007
And this is exactly the attitude that they want you to have. Only criminals would be discussing something illegal, right? It's a slippery slope. When *will* you start caring about your privacy? Besides, the govt. is not infallible; they make mistakes. Perhaps you will care when your Mom gets hauled off by the govt. for being a terrorist. Whoops. Maybe she will be lucky enough to actually get a trial, but it's no longer guaranteed as habeus corpus has been repealed.I may be over-reacting, but IMHO you should re-evaluate what's important to you before an improbable situation does it for you.
fatnutzJun 24, 2007
Sprint, Verizon, etc. are weak compared to the amount of bulls**t AT&T has shown it's capable of. They have been f**king people raw since the early 80's, the younger crowd really needs to look at the LONG history of the largest service provider in the US before buying into this. Google it, wiki it, whatever, get yourself informed before you kids pull a dips**t move and buy an iphone without being in the know on AT&T.As of June 23 2006: "AT&T — not customers — owns customers' confidential info and can use it 'to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."
tonytaoJul 23, 2007
Good.......
nortonkNov 28, 2007
As a customer service consultant and speaker, one of the best things to share with audiences are the personal stories of great and bad service. AT&T reminds me of the old Johnny Carson joke. "Sometimes people will shoot themselves in the foot. . . the problem with AT&T is that they can reload so FAST". Having been a Cingular customer for years, I was a little concerned about my service moving to At&T. Wouldn't you know it. Within 6 months they sent me a letter telling me I was "fired" as an At&T customer. . . would I please find another carrier. I thought, "are you joking? Do you really want a customer service keynote speaker to have a letter telling them that they are fired?" And without even talking to us.A few weeks later I get called by Windstream inviting me to change my internet cable service to Windstream at a good monthly savings. OK. . . I will bite. The new modem arrives. I find out that I have to buy 8 adapters to put on all the phones/lines in the house at a signifigant price to me. But to their credit they send out a guy who will fix this issue. So I stay home all afternoon, the guy arrives and tells me that he is sorry, they don't have service to my house. Sorry. So now I have to make a trip to UPS to ship them back their modem.What has all of this got to do with At&T? Windstream is owned by AT&T. Bullets anyone?Kordell Nortonwww.KordellNorton.com
mojojojoJul 8, 2009
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/apple/San_Francisco_iPhone_Sufferer_s_Unite_Hate_ATT_Love_iPhone">http://digg.com/apple/San_Francisco_iPhone_Suffere ...</a>f**k ATT. SF service is terrible.