Comments on: Telecoms fight for the right to party with iPhone 3G http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/08/02/telecoms-fight-for-the-right-to-party-with-iphone-3g/ Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: fatbarstard http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/08/02/telecoms-fight-for-the-right-to-party-with-iphone-3g/comment-page-1/#comment-10899 fatbarstard Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:06:38 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=2023#comment-10899 Oh man... that is a brutally efficient and profitable business model for Apple - anyone who thought that Apple would get its lunch cut will have to change their mind - it is Apple that is doing the lunch cutting... I am also one of the switchers - dumped my contract and my Palm Tero for a new contract with Vodafone and an iPhone - I had to pay $280 odd to walk away from the other provider. Now why would I do that?? Simple. My Tero drove me bonkers and the call quality was very poor - the old network continually dropped calls and half the time didn't even deliver them. I could sit in my office in downtown, call my Treo from my landline and have the call be switched straight through to voicemail - full strength signal and all... Aaarrrggghhh!!! But now with an iPhone I have no problems at all... I know five people who have all dumped their so called smart phones and got an iPhone since the 3g model was launched... Oh man… that is a brutally efficient and profitable business model for Apple – anyone who thought that Apple would get its lunch cut will have to change their mind – it is Apple that is doing the lunch cutting…

I am also one of the switchers – dumped my contract and my Palm Tero for a new contract with Vodafone and an iPhone – I had to pay $280 odd to walk away from the other provider.

Now why would I do that?? Simple. My Tero drove me bonkers and the call quality was very poor – the old network continually dropped calls and half the time didn’t even deliver them.

I could sit in my office in downtown, call my Treo from my landline and have the call be switched straight through to voicemail – full strength signal and all… Aaarrrggghhh!!!

But now with an iPhone I have no problems at all… I know five people who have all dumped their so called smart phones and got an iPhone since the 3g model was launched…

]]> By: Brau http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/08/02/telecoms-fight-for-the-right-to-party-with-iphone-3g/comment-page-1/#comment-10887 Brau Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:55:00 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/?p=2023#comment-10887 Now, who was it who said "They're (Apple) not just going to walk in ..."? Now, who was it who said “They’re (Apple) not just going to walk in …”?

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