So the new iPhone is out today (so is the free update for those of us who were dumb smart enough to get the original version), but better yet is the App Store, where you can shop for extra add-ons and wingdings, many of which are free or totally reasonable. Like $1-10 reasonable. For instance, my personal favorite, the Checkout SmartShop. For only $5, you can download an application into which you can type in any UPC number and it will find the best prices available both locally and online, which is going to come in handy at a big box-y “we’ll match any price” stores when you need to, like, buy a dishwasher. Webmonkey has a handy list of 8 things you can now do with the 2.0, and that’s one of them, along with playing the drums, recording your next interview, shaking it like a Magic 8 ball to randomly generate restaurant suggestions in the area, blog, listen to the radio, and pretend it’s a lightsaber.
So now are you knuckle dragging holdouts going to get one?
The iPhone: A Gift from the Gods.
Except that the download is fucking up everyone’s shit. Like a lot.
What about the fucked-up locked-in two year contract with AT&T. The minute I can pick my carrier I’ll get an iPhone. Till then, they can lick my taint.
That download took 4 hours! Ugh. But the new updates rule.
Yeah, isn’t the two year contract even a BIGGER. MORE EXPENSIVE contract than the previous one for the first ifoney? So the cost savings at the counter truly isnt.
I’m with you fellers. The plan sucks ass.
I’m already getting gently raped by Commiecast. I can’t afford to give AT & T the other half of my paycheck.
The only fucked up thing is gullible idiots who are stupid enough to believe Apple’s hype – you know, people who think that when the phone is $200 cheaper and the compulsory 2-year contract is $240 more, that somehow means you’re saving money…
The IPhone – even the new one – does less than several competitors on better networks that cost half as much per month. It’s good for label whores and Apple’s bottom line, and nothing else.
DO.NOT.WANT.
I’m squarely on the Fuck AT&T Train.
The new plan actually makes it more expensive per year for the 3G, even with the reduced price.
I’m an early adopter for the most part, but I’m not an idiot.
The iPhone voice and data plan is pretty much identical to the voice and data plans for every other comparable phone from AT&T or other carriers. Mobile phone contracts suck, to be sure, but this isn’t anything new, nor anything Apple has any control over. Someone please tell me about a cell phone network that costs “half as much per month.” And if you think there’s another phone that’s comparable in features and usability to the iPhone, I’d like to see that too.
Irrational iPhone hating is just as silly as irrational iPhone loving.
I was taking the opportunity to do some irrational corporate bashing, but I’m not concerned as much about the specific provider as I am about there being only one.
What little power I had as a consumer is gone with no choice of carrier.
Let’s see, I use a Sprint phone (faster network btw). It lets you download any software you want onto it (which the iPhone doesn’t do). It isn’t comparable to the iPhone – it’s better. And my contract for minimal minutes (but unlimited evenings and weekends, which is all I need), plus unlimited data, comes to $45 per month. in other words, about half what I’d have to pay to use an iPhone. And the handset was much cheaper as well. QED.
Like I said, the iPhone is for the gullible and/or label whores.
Shit, my cell phone, piece of shit that it is, does the job and costs me $24.99 a month. It’s a T-Mobile Sammy Hung or something, and it ain’t fancy, but it works, and I am not concerned with all of the other garbage that the iphone offers.
You’d probably shell out out $200 on a pan though