I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to the iPhone

Re:I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to... by jrockway on Thursday July 30, 2009 @11:51PM (#733707)

Too bad that the US carriers are dragging their feet on releasing readily-available Android phones. They could really capitalize on all the iPhone and AT&T hate; but not with the G1.

(The G2 is supposed to be released in a few days, but nobody knows when the HTC Hero is going to be here. Too bad, as that one is the real iPhone competitor.)

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Re:I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to... by zach on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:14AM (#733737)

Nerdfury, as awesome as it is to behold, does not necessarily indicate there is all that much hate out there. It just seems that way because it's so intense.

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Re:I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to... by jrockway on Friday July 31, 2009 @01:31AM (#733824)

Do smartphones with $40/month data plans appeal to anyone but nerds?

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Re:I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to... by jacoblyles on Friday July 31, 2009 @03:30AM (#733965)

If we're talking about the iPhone, empirically I would say yes.

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Re:I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to... by zach on Friday July 31, 2009 @02:40AM (#733905)

Touché.

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Re:I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to... by netsp on Friday July 31, 2009 @03:47AM (#733978)

No it isn't. Who do you think all these people buying Iphones are.

Stand your ground.

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Re:I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to... by zach on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:15PM (#734702)

It's a fair point that those who would even consider switching in the first place would be the nerds.

And I thought a bit about the Daring Fireball article -- holding on to your enthusiasts is important.

Yes, I know reconsidering an opinion you express online is heresy, but it's not as irrelevant as I made it seem.

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Re:I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to... by redorb on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:19AM (#733746)

I think we need to stop calling other phones a "iphone killer" as that is similar but younger than looking for a "google killer" - I just think the iphones first mover advantage; and legacy for the first multi-touch is going to make it hard to move from the top...

-- What I thought would be my stronger point is shorter, I think the profit in the iphone is maximized because of the exclusive deal with AT&T, and perhaps carriers make less on the android; so they then use, cheap touch screen phones that suck :/

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Re:I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to... by jrockway on Friday July 31, 2009 @01:33AM (#733827)

I think we need to stop calling other phones a "iphone killer"

I was careful to not say that; I said "iphone competitor".

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