I HATE APPLE

2k overall

i use voip on my iphone

― BIG HOOS is not a nacho purist fwiw (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, December 29, 2008 4:25 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

from the excelsior thread. didn't want to continue this convo there. my phone bill is $90/month. how does this translate into $2k? please let me know.

I wish the voice ws better on iphone : (

24 * 90 = 2160

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i was calculating one years worth of bills--so where is this iphone alternative where you don't pay monthly fees?

besides retards who like to use VOIP on an ipoh touch

i have an iphone; the plan was only $10-20 more per month than other comparable voice + data plans. i guess the cheap alternative is to not spring for voice + data.

exactly.

Fuck an iphone, that calculator is SO CUTE.

yeah ok the ipod touch is totally useless because it does not force you to buy a voice and data plan from AT&T.

autumn almanac otm though, we need more mustachioed information technology in the 2009

my toaster doesn't force me to buy a voice and data plan from AT&T either. but it doesn't make phone calls.

(it makes toast)

I requested my workplace's wifi password and was told that it was six pages long.

I don't know if that's hyperbole or not, but fuck me sitting here typing in a six-page password with my two thumbs.

Working on hacking the wine bar next door, but I don't know any French.

My iphone doesn't force me to buy from at&t because we don't have at&t here. I could buy one from one of four telcos because our govt actually bothered to do something nice for us in this instance.

I requested my workplace's wifi password and was told that it was six pages long.

'do not write down your password' etc etc

ok, please bear with me as i am a total n00b, and easily confused by interchangable terms ... but it sounds like the best thing to do is

1) set up the time capsule as the WDS base on 5ghz

2) set up the airport extreme as a 2.4 ghz WDS relay, using an Ethernet cable

3) set up the airport express as a WDS remote

i was calculating one years worth of bills--so where is this iphone alternative where you don't pay monthly fees?

― cutty, Monday, December 29, 2008 9:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this. all the blog posts that smugly post the REAL price of the iphone seem to ignore the fact that all cell phones cost money every month.

anyway, different people different needs, but im with cutty, i like having everything in one place, i like having a nice thing to show off photos & videos, i like not having to carry 2 devices, i like not missing calls anymore because im listening to my ipod.

a dude asked to be talked out of buying an iphone. I attempted to do so. I'm a smug motherfucker!!

i like not missing calls anymore because im listening to my ipod.

I mitigate that by listening to my ipod instead of my iphone.

you mean so you DO miss calls?

The iPhone is awesome. It's just that I hate AT&T with the fire of a thousand suns. I hate Apple for doing that deal. Buttholes.

The BBerry sucks, unless your whole life revolves around push email and running AIM in the background. In which case, you are like every other twenty-something woman out there who spends way too much time needlessly thmbng urslf.

you mean so you DO miss calls?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

q.v. Answering the Door thread

Fuck paying > $1000/year for a phone. Hell, fuck paying for a phone at all when work will pick up the tab!

Sorry to hijack this thread, but...

New question: Should I buy a BlackBerry Curve or a BlackBerry Storm or an iPhone?

I don't care at all about cost (my work is paying for it, yay). I also don't care about iTunes or iPods or any of that. YouTube would be nice to look at I guess, and Shazam sounds cool. What about the touch screens? Are they as big of a pain in the ass as I fear? Like, I was at a Verizon store a couple weeks ago and the sales guy was giving me a demonstration and even he was having trouble typing in stuff. And I thought, "Yikes! If this guy's a professional and even he can't type a destination into the GPS navigation system with hitting backspace five times, how the hell am I gonna be able to do this?" And I guess what I really want to know is what can a BlackBerry do that an iPhone can't and vice-versa?

i was calculating one years worth of bills--so where is this iphone alternative where you don't pay monthly fees?

― cutty, Monday, December 29, 2008 9:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I pay only $25 every three months for my cheapass Virgin Mobile USA phone. It's great!

I've had a Blackberry 8900 for a year now and it sucks. Get one iPhone.

I don't think that the iPhone does YouTube yet, does it? I mean, it doesn't support Flash?

The Storm's touchscreen is weird and the GUI is fugly. The iPhone smokes it in every conceivable way. Don't get a Storm if you are going BB, get one with real keys.

the iPhone touchscreen is a bit of a pain in the ass, and you will have trouble at the beginning, but you will get over it, for the most part, as you get used to it and as you recognize the various other operational advantages it has over the blackberry

iphone has done youtube out of the box since day one!

if you get a blackberry, get the bold.

What major thing is it missing, then? I thought it was flash.

when you have an iphone, people are like "oh cool, an iphone", or they get all creepy and hater-ish about it: "oh an iphone, any other status symbols you want to show us?". if you have a blackberry nobody cares.

that's my experience, anyway.

i know a *lot* of people with blackberries and treos and whatnot (no storms, yet, though) and they all look sad when they talk about iphones

What major thing is it missing, then? I thought it was flash.

― яσσʍ♭ⱥȵℹҁᔔ ᴗȵȴℹʍℹȶ∊∂ (libcrypt), Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:28 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the browser doesnt do flash, but there is a separate youtube app.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/ipod-touch-was.html

I don't know if it's a testament to Apple's marketing or the thought process of your average non-geek American but my mother-in-law's husband's niece got an ipod touch for christmas despite the fact that nobody in the family owns a computer and had no idea you need one to get music onto it.

well technically I'm pretty sure you could just go to a mcdonalds' and use the free wifi to buy things off the itunes store.

It's a testament to how fearful people are of asking questions that might be perceived as stupid. E.g., "if I get this for my girl, can she listen to music on it?"

Blackberry is better for email.

(I have heard)

i know a *lot* of people with blackberries and treos and whatnot (no storms, yet, though) and they all look sad when they talk about iphones

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 03:48 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sad for the iphone not having a keyboard, teh snappy, copy and paste and multitasking we have no iFart either.

when does AT&T's exclusive deal with iPhone expire?

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