(warning – this is a rant)
Once again when I thought it wasn’t possible, AT&T reached yet another nadir in its inability to provide a service to iPhone users. Now they admit it.
Rather than blog about what laughably AT&T tries to pass as service, I’ve come up with the real secret meaning of AT&T’s 3G.
3G Stands for the 3 Ghosts:
1. the ghost of network speed (let’s just call that glacial)
2. the ghost of network reliability (actually the network reliably drops calls, has multiple dead spots, and uncanny text/voice message delays)
3. the ghost of “we care and we are doing something about it” (let’s call this one gullibility)
I’ve been an AT&T customer since 1996 but I plan to switch to Verizon once the exclusive deal with AT&T is over.
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Readers of this blog can recount the pain I experience with my iphone. Actually, not with the iphone but with AT&T’s horrible 3G service here in Denver.
Upgrading to the new 3GS was non-issue to me based upon the primary “better speed” promise. I didn’t upgrade to the new 3GS because that’s like buying a Porsche to sit in a traffic jam.
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch is giving up his iphone as is Om Malik albeit for different reasons. Will the nerd herd follow suite and give up theirs?
Screenshot from Techcrunch
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I was thinking this morning that I haven’t heard about anyone being “revolutionary” in a while as it relates to a leader of a movement. That applies to technology, biology, etc… It could be that I’ve been living under a rock (not likely, but I’ll accept that as a possible explanation) or that I don’t travel/read in the right circles.
We don’t hear about the monumental characters who are so persuasive in their words, so committed to their actions, by their presence and determination, they shake the foundation of society and redefine a new water line. I wonder, has the Internet made the need for one unifying voice obsolete?
In days of Jesus Christ, Oliver Cromwell, Tomas Jefferson, Bill Buckley, Emma Goldman (fill in the name of your favorite revolution here______________), persuasiveness was reflected not only upon what they wrote (or preached) but how they implemented their vision. In the modern era, say since 1997, the tools of vision communication have become pedestrian: available to many and therefore the message must be that much more compelling to rise above the noise. The vision and voice of the individual leader has largely been replaced by the revolutionary masses (or hordes, depending on your perspective).
Where have all the revolutionaries gone?
Has technology made them obsolete? Or has technology amplified yet distributed the common voices so that coalescence now occurs at an individual level?
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An amazing act of defiance.
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For some it is a robin.
For some it is golf clubs or mountain bikes.
For me this is truly the first sign of spring.
GO SOX!
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This is hilarious on so many different levels. Make sure you try to download a version to get the full mojo.
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4:50 am and I’m trying to get some work done. Google is not helping. Again. How many times has this happened in the last 3 weeks?
Between GMail (work and personal) as well as calendar ( work and personal) – at least 3 times.
Is this the price of perpetual beta?
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