It’s not that I don’t want an iPhone.
In fact, it’s not even the fact that iPhones only use AT&T (problems detailed here).
No, actually I DO want one, and would be willing to put up with AT&T to do so.
It’s rather this that keeps me using my trusty Samsung ‘dumbphone’:
“AT&T’s right to be the exclusive carrier for iPhone in the United States has been a golden ticket for the wireless company. The average iPhone owner pays AT&T $2,000 during his two-year contract — roughly twice the amount of the average mobile phone customer.“
Emphasis mine. Full article here.
Staci Thomas
Furthermore, if you did have an iPhone and if you were in Ohio this week you would join my husband in wanting to put the thing under the wheel of his airplane before it took off. The amount of dropped calls and poor service connections while he is in Ohio is endlessly maddening. While trying to make connection with his client today, it dropped five times. The New York Times describes the problem here:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/companies/03att.htmlStaci, who uses her iPhone as a laptop and because no one calls her she is oblivious to bad service connections…