This is all stupid Meg Whitman's fault. How stupid do you have to be to pay billions for a company that you don't get the rights to their key asset? That's like buying Coke without their secret formula or KFC without the Colonel's secret recipe.
Well, one of several things happened here. Either the sacrifice of Google upon Apple's altar appeased the AT&T gods, AT&T and Apple don't want more crap from the FCC, or AT&T is desperate to give Apple a reason to maintain exclusivity in the US.
I can't wait to find out which! Things are getting interesting again.
"Hey look, I want you to get in there and take one for the team. Go after Google and get some of this heat off of us. Use one of those federally mandated telecommunication regulations to shut them the hell up. Do that for me and we'll keep the iphone exclusive to you guys. But remember if you cross me I'll burn you f*ckers down to the ground.."
People have to understand that At&t 2G network was already max out which was the main reason your calls where getting drop, which had nothing to do with the iphone. Their new 3G network can handle 5x more traffic, so if you think the iPhone was gonna bring their network to it's knees, this is proof that you have been dead wrong. When they upgrade their Network to LTE, their network will be able to handle more than 2 billion users, bringing prices to rock bottom and Also you will see them opening the doors to international roaming.
@snitch: "When they upgrade their Network to LTE, their network will be able to handle more than 2 billion users, but prices will remain the same, while AT&T swims in cash."
@OCEntertainment: Prices will drop by a lot, trust me, remember when they use to charge you long distance when calling someone that was like 10 miles from you, all that change cause pipes can now handle more traffic. Telcos make money no matter what, the only reason you don't see Verizon & AT&T with dirt cheap calling plans is because they don't wanna overload their network, but when they Upgrade to LTE they won't have to worry about it anymore. What keeps every teenager from being glue to their phones is calling plans, calling plans prevent's people from crashing the network.
I only have one related request: Automatic switching to VoIP over Wifi when I'm out of AT&T signal and IN Wifi signal without using that stupid router they're coming out with. This should work EVERYWHERE there is wifi.
Come on Google Voice!!! (and please please please, although it has nothing to do with VoIP, please let Latitude come to the iPhone as a standalone app!)
This still doesn't mean the network will be able to cope with the data. I have a hard enough time keeping a reliable data session on the browser, so I can only imagine VOIP making things even worse.
@David Hildreth: Google Voice is not VOIP, that's what made the situation so much more bizarre, and if you are to believe ATT they had nothing to do with the rejection of the GV app. GV is a virtual PBX; you still have to use and get charged for the minutes you use.
Awesome. Too bad she didn't wound him instead. Imagine him then having to go back to the rest of the terrorist cell buddies and explain to them that a woman took his AK-47 and shot him with it...
@Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®:
Dude these are hardcore al-qaeda affiliated pakistani militants not some nuts with guns......they dont stay down if they just get wounded.They are brainwashed religious zealots.She needed to kill one of them to set an example and scare the others away.
@Aashish Bhagyanagar: I know. I still think it would have been funnier if he had to explain how he lost his gun. His friends would zing him afterwards by setting him up on a suicide mission to redeem himself and then give him a fake bomb. They'd secretly video tape him trying to set the thing off. Then when he returns to their hideout, cave, whatever they'd play it back while everyone rips on him..
Well, it's Skype... decrying this move as putting more crapware on our shipped OS's is like complaining if the vendor installed MS Office (not crappy works) for you for free, or even if Firefox or Chrome were installed for you. It's good software. IT professionals deploying across a fleet and power users like me will just go ahead and wipe off the shipped OS in favor of a clean/custom set up anyways.
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I can't wait to find out which! Things are getting interesting again.
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[gizmodo.com]
Translation: Steve called AT&T and said,
"Hey look, I want you to get in there and take one for the team. Go after Google and get some of this heat off of us. Use one of those federally mandated telecommunication regulations to shut them the hell up. Do that for me and we'll keep the iphone exclusive to you guys. But remember if you cross me I'll burn you f*ckers down to the ground.."
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Dude these are hardcore al-qaeda affiliated pakistani militants not some nuts with guns......they dont stay down if they just get wounded.They are brainwashed religious zealots.She needed to kill one of them to set an example and scare the others away.
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