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Re: That sucks . . .

Posted By: J242 (71.231.203.254)
Date: Thursday, 11 January 2007, at 4:43 a.m.

In Response To: That sucks . . . (Intellect Inside)

: With Cingular? Fsck...that is lame.

It makes sense. T-Mobile, Verizon, Nextel/Sprint, they all offer services that expect a user to PAY for their ringtones, wallpapers, software updates, etc... They wouldn't want Apple coming in and allowing users to bypass all of the various BS they've set up that make users pay even more to customize their phones the way they want to. To quote a poster from a different forum on this:

Also, 3G has some serious problems, such as killing the battery life even when not in use, massive additional financial cost, and poor coverage anywhere outside the UK. While there are plans in the works for making a 3G iPhone (as per Job's keynote address), right now the benefits aren't high enough to offset the associated problems.

I also heard another interesting little tidbit about the iPhone today - Verizon and T-Mobile don't WANT phones that can do that stuff. See, they make a lot of money off things like:

- downloadable ringtunes & wallpapers
- transferring pictures taken on camera phones via phone network, and not by USB cables/bluetooth (they disable those options on as many of their phones as they can)
- making you listen to all of your voicemail messages to get to the one you care about (eats up your minutes)
- MASSIVE amounts of money off data transfers of ALL kinds, like web browsing or email

The iPhone gives ways of doing all that for free - using any picture as your phone's wallpaper, using any song from your iTunes library for your ringtone, retrieving your voicemail the way you do with email, all data can be transfered via USB cable or wifi, and if the iPhone is in range of a wifi hotspot, it will use that for data transfer instead of using the phone network.

Verizon and T-Mobile don't WANT the iPhone, they want to keep milking everyone for things they should be getting for free. Why the hell should you pay $0.10 per picture message, when by all rights, the phone should be able to transfer pics to your PC via USB or bluetooth?

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