Goodbye AT&T and Apple. Hello Verizon and HTC Droid Incredible
So I finally gave up on AT&T and Apple and have moved on HTC/Google and Verizon. Why? Well, I’ve gone through 2 iPhones in 36 months and I'm NOT happy about it. I’m not hard on phones but my first iPhone had a battery go bad @ month 18 and I bought a 3G because I couldn’t wait a month for Apple to fix it not to mention MMS and tethering were supposed to be available on the 3GS. Now 18 months after that, the home button just quit working. That was just the last straw!
Below is a list of reasons why I had to give up on both companies:
- AT&T – MMS support 6 months late
- AT&T – Visual voicemail quit working when server msg stored reached 200
- AT&T – No tethering until 18 months later AND they want to chage $20/mo
- AT&T – elimination of unlimited data plan
- AT&T - $350 to cancel any iPhone contact. PERIOD!
- AT&T – Refuses to support Skype
- AT&T – Refuses to support any video streaming not involving THEIR services
- AT&T - Dropped calls - Especially when iPhone to iPhone
- APPLE – Too many hardware deficiencies to list (Apple’s never been a hardware company)
- APPLE – Brick the phone when you violate THEIR software agreement
- APPLE – Horrible turn around time on faulty iPhone
- APPLE – Can’t replace the battery and batter life SUCKS
- APPLE – Lack of TRUE x64 support. Office plug-in fails with Office x64 and no support for it in the future but they offer a 64 bit iTunes. (Means no real x64 experience in their software department)
- APPLE – Software platform requires “APPROVAL” – That’s not open source!
- APPLE - Lack of flash with camera.
- APPLE - Lack of Flash support (And Adobe and Flash are in bed together)
- APPLE - Lack of Silverlight support (Don't ask - it's a developer thing)
Quite a list huh? Look. There are so many competing products out there and I find it rather strange that Apple can brick your phone even AFTER you paid for it. Does Apple brick your Mac if you install an OS other then Mac OSX? No.
Apple has always had a nasty habit of not playing well with others and being rather demanding. The iPhone will always have a place in history but it doesn’t take long before the competition catches up.
Never was a fan of Apple….they are innovators when it comes to UI but they fall short everywhere else.
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