Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes?

Re:Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes? by lepht on Sunday December 13, 2009 @10:08PM (#993512)

Happy iPhone user here in North Eastern US, but I think your logic (and the TFA's) is faulty:

It is completely possible that it is a problem with the iPhone, but one that is only visibly affecting the network when there's a high density of iPhones being used in a small geographical area.

It's like the whole controversial 'pre-fetch' setting on Fasterfox and other 'web accelerators'. It's fine for individual users, but it violates the contract of how network clients (browsers) are expected to act.

Once there's a sizable number of people using the technology it becomes a problem that affects everyone.

To say that the issues only occur in large metropolitan areas does not completely exclude the iPhone itself from being a contributing factor.

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Re:Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes? by bugs on Sunday December 13, 2009 @10:14PM (#993526)

See I understand where you are coming from but the comment about Hawaii's network makes me think otherwise. (Usually the AT&T complaints are limited to Chicago California and New York so that also brings to question why isn't everyone else experiencing such issues.)

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