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Originally Posted by BryanHarig
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Please explain how AT&T's poor excuse for a 3g network is in any way Apple's fault? AT&T has been pinching pennies when it comes to upgrading to 3g for years now.
Once iPhone made mobile data usage simple and usable for the majority of real consumers (as opposed to techies) guess what? Their bargain bin 3g network couldnt take the load!
Is that what you blame Apple for? Making data so widely and easily used?
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This is an interesting take on the issue. One could argue that Apple dumped an inefficient device onto the market. But what is beyond any debate is that AT&T put millions of these inefficient devices into their customer's hands without first upgrading their network to support the new bandwidth-hoggers. That is purely on AT&T, not Apple. And AT&T should have known what the usage characteristics of the iPhone were well before they deployed it. I assumed that they would have upgraded the network first, then released the device. Instead, it appears they did the opposite.
How does this sound for a company philosphy:
"Thanks for giving us all of that money, which we will immediately book as a profit.....we promise to have your problems fixed at some point in the future"
Unfortunately, AT&T is not a pioneer when it comes to adopting this philosophy.
And ironically enough, in the end, we BB users may have the iPhone masses to thank. AT&T is now going to have to do a major infrastructure upgrade as a result of these folks, but we will also benefit from it.