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Originally Posted by ondigiman  OK...
Open your mind here guys, I know it is difficult...
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meh. make the argument without condescension. Alienating your audience on the first sentence isn't the smartest approach.
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The FFC/Government is 100% correct here...
If I buy an expensive communications device AND I pay an inflated price for service for this device, then should I not be able to use it as I see fit???
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sure. you can use a car for a boat if you see fit, but don't expect warranty service when it sinks. Not sure where you're going here.
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Originally Posted by ondigiman The device (iPhone) itself is without question one of the most innovative communication devices to have hit the market and yet it is completed locked down by Apple and AT&T and why? They already sold the device and made the bucks and they have you locked in to a two year agreement.
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already made the bucks? and? you agreed to the both the hardware and the software and the contract when you made the purchase. God forbid you actually live with it.
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First of all this exclusivity deal has pissed me off for the longest, whilst Apple position themselves to bleed the cellular industry dry on the operator side they also continue to do so on the end user side with the App store and have the gall to tell me what I can and cannot have installed on MY device by controlling all the App vendors.
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see the above "you signed the contact". Unless Steve forced you, I'm pretty sure this is your fault.
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And let me remind you that Apple were nearly finished as a company before the arrival of the iPhone. This device has single handedly re-invented the company and inspired people to look at other Apple devices such as the Mac.
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and? no point here. no response necessary.
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Originally Posted by ondigiman It's win win for apple and AT&T with the iPhone and its not right.
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not if no one buys it. If you don't like the arrangement, don't buy it. With no customers, they'll adjust to customer demands as shown through customer purchases of other products. It's a cool system I like to call "capitalism".
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As a consumer you should have the right to choose your device AND your network and there should be fairer competitive rules.
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You have lots of choices. Verizon, t-mobile, pay-per-minute, etc.
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The Sprints and T-Mobile's of this world are suffering greatly and whilst I agree that its business, AT&T have been dismantled once before for operating the exact same tactics.
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T-mobile and sprint aren't suffering because of the iPhone. the iPhone isn't an 80% monopoly, and neither is AT&T.
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If you are going to screw me on arguably the most expensive contract in the industry, please don't again shaft me by restricting what I can do with my device after I bought it, because you and your buddies want to squeeze the last drop of juice out of this fruit!
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Don't buy it.
that was easy. who's next?
//by the way, I'd love to see every phone and every mobile O/S on every carrier. Except that it doesn't work. that's why I still have a dumbphone while I wait for a good phone to pick up. And Apple's limitations is one reason I don't have a $99 iPhone.
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