So the expected drop-rate for the iPhone on AT&T’s network is 30%, and that’s an acceptable rate of failure? I don’t even drop 30% of my calls when I’m in the basement of my house, 8 feet underground and surrounded on all sides by concrete and insulation! How can you even call it a phone if it won’t make or hold any stinking phone calls?
I guess that does make the iPhone the perfect cell phone for horror movies, where every phone conveniently is unable to get a signal at a crucial point. However, in the real world, it’s definitely inconvenient. Well, it’s inconvenient in horror movies, too, but you run less risk of getting chopped up if you can’t make that order for Chinese on the subway in meatspace.
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So, the only odds worse are flipping a coin and the accuracy of a weather forecast? What are people paying for when they get an iPhone?
Posted by: Lucy | October 2nd, 2009 6:53 am |
A trendy pocket computer that costs more and is less useful than a netbook, basically. It’s the fad thing, like a $500 pet rock.
Posted by: Ron Hogan | October 2nd, 2009 10:07 pm |
What ever happened to pay phones?
Posted by: Lynda | October 3rd, 2009 2:43 am |
Pay phones are all gone now. Plus they cost like 50 cents or something crazy like that, so nobody uses them.
Posted by: Ron Hogan | October 6th, 2009 12:00 am |
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