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More Reasons to Ditch Your iPhone

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"The problem: you don't delete your superfluous apps"

Yes I do.

"T-Mobile is cheaper"

http://coverage.t-mobile.com/default.aspx?MapType=Data

Yeah... I wonder why?

There's absolutely nothing decent about this article. Android is "beautiful"? REALLY?

I think he meant the touch Sense UI on the HTC Hero is beautiful (since thats the image he had in there), in which case I absolutely agree with him.

> T-Mobile is cheaper

That isn't very helpful either, I'm not in the US.

Why should some guy with a blog be trying to get us to use what they like? What happened to letting the consumer decide on their own?

Well, I don't think he's "trying to get us to use what they like?"

I think he's writing an article with 'tude... and that can have a 'hot' link-bait title :/

That is the future of "journalism", is it not?

Regulators want to know who killed the app, and why Voice is different than other VOIP apps like Skype.

How is it that people who are supposed to be informed about this technology still conflate Google Voice with VOIP? It seems that a lot of people are commenting on this story without actually researching it. This also insinuates that the rejection was mostly ATT's doing, which is flatly contradicted by the existence of the Blackberry GV app on ATT's network.

AT&T has treated the iPhone special before, IMHO it's very likely this was due to contractual obligations with AT&T.

The key difference with Blackberry is that there is no central Blackberry App Store — regardless of what AT&T thinks, stopping apps from existing on that platform is pretty much impossible.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/07/28/att-om-iphone

How about the most important thing:

You don't actually NEED one.

That's hippy talk. Life isn't about having what you need, it's about having what you want.

Your life is.

For most people, it IS about having what they need.

The iPhone is a wholly insignificant creation, as is my Sony W880i which had cut and paste the day I bought it and allows me to run any apps I damn well like ;-)

>> "Sony W880i which had cut and paste the day I bought it and allows me to run any apps I damn well like ;-)"

Shame it has a godawful excuse for a browser.

True. Opera Mini works fine though :-)

"For most people" -> how do you know? Do you have some statistics? ;-)

I think he's saying that the average human, over all of history, has been much lower on Maslow's hierarchy than we technophiles.

Thank you - my point entirely, albeit slightly more elegantly put.

Look at the population of the world that live on or below the level of poverty.

You just don't know you need one. You'll soon come around. They all do. :-)

NO, I won't ditch my iPhone!

Decent article, though I really wish reporters would either find some evidence that AT&T is behind the removal of GV, or at least stop reporting that as a fact. AT&T doesn't control the app store, that's all Apple, and I don't believe GV is available on any non-US Apple app stores, so this isn't only an AT&T issue.

Decent, really? I thought it was a horrible article. It took seven points that have (for the most part) been overhashed on the internet in the past few days and summarized them in a single paragraph each, without bringing any new content or thoughts regarding any of the points to the table.

AT&T has repeated demonstrated an ability to influence what is allowed on the app store.

You can't throw a stone through 'app store' search results without hitting a story of some app being removed or artificially limited at AT&T's request.

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