This thing will do wonders to help me find my way through my piles of laundry I haven't done in a while.

DSL companies are beyond ridiculous when it comes to hidden fees. Embarq screwed me over BIG time. They claimed $25/mo. Then I needed to get a phone line, and the minimum would require me to pay $50/mo for the DSL (ontop of $10/mo for the phone line). I finally came to a deal to do the basic local deal and DSL package to come out to $65/mo.

So I get my service and its not too bad. A month passes by and I finally get my first statement (also, never once did I put my John Hancock on a single document) and it was $180!! I called them up and they stated it was setup fees, taxes, and installation. Then I realized it was broken up into 3 payments... meaning I would have been paying over $400 for the 1st 3 months just to have a mediocre 3mbit line!

I decided to cancel and get my money back becuase I was no satisfied, and ohhhh the headache to go through that process was HORRIBLE. They started spewing out lies about cable being unsafe, and how I signed a contract (incorrect- I never once signed a contract), and all kind of ridiculous excuses.

Needless to say, I finally got my money back and every dime I was charged had been returned after hours on end of talking to brick walls and morons. Lesson learned- DSL companies are getting desperate to keep some income by screwing the customer with hidden fees/terms.

...oh, and STAY AWAY FROM EMBARQ!!

kvocal:

This is NOT an issue of freedom of speech and/or someones rights at all. It is not censorship. If you want to be a smartass and try to define it for us, try to realize that in no way is Engadget keeping anyone from viewing these stories. Even if they chose not to EVERY show an Apple story ever again, thats not censorship in anyway.

What they are doing, is allowing people like myself who have had enough of reading 30 different apple/iphone stories every day that are less than useful in the life of even an average Apple fanboy, to not have to deal with them anymore... however, as brought up numerous times- its too drastic and despite our hatred for being bombarded with these articles, we still like to know whats going on in the Apple-world with RELEVANT and useful NEWS. NOT non-news (Steve Jobs is caught sending an e-mail on his iPhone while eating dinner he ordered from his Mac!).

THE IPHONE IS NOT REVOLUTIONARY!! Why does everyone say this? WHAT is revolutionary about it? Theres IMPROVEMENTS over previous smart phones, but it is by NO means revolutionary. PalmPilots (yes, I know the difference) were revolutionary. Blackberrys were revolutionary. Hell, even Sidekicks are revolutionary. iPhones are NOT.

Touch screen? NOT REVOLUTIONARY. MP3 playback? NOT REVOLUTIONARY. Video playback? NOT REVOLUTIONARY. No removeable battery, no 3g (or mobile broadband support), no 3rd party sdk, no keypad all in a HIGHLY overpriced package with uncalled for amount of coverage? Well, revolutionary in the phone world, but Sony already covered overpriced/overrated packages offering very little in the PS3.

But hey- Apple Fanboys will be in cloud9 forever and are impossible to talk sense into. I mean, they are smarter than a Windows/Linux user... but their #1 reason for buying Mac over Windows- WINDOWS IS TOO HARD AND BREAKS TOO EASILY!!

(psst! My 80 year old grandma uses windows just fine and I surprisingly have never had to format her computer yet! Just though I'd throw that in there as food for thought)

If only there was a count of Zune articles within the 6 months prior to its release, and iPhone articles in the past 6 months...

I understand. I've stated a few times Engadget doesn't really do it so bad as Giz. But I go back and forth between both of them daily and I mix up the articles sometimes and mistake that you are the ones doing it. I think what I'm mainly getting at is I hope Giz takes notice of Engadget and realizes people are getting sick of the 6-7 articles you posted in the past 20 hours compared to their 13-15 "yay apple, boo microsoft" ones

You mean Gizmodo? Like I said- Engadget does probably one of the better jobs compared to the rest of the blogs of being balanced. Gizmodo, I counted about 13 iPhone/Apple articles in the past 21 hours of June 20, 2007. Not to mention about 1 or 2 articles about Microsoft... and you guessed it- it was all "booo microsoft!! YAY APPLE!" in those articles.

pssst!!! Theres an ENTIRE blog in the Weblog, Inc. network dedicated to Apple ;)

http://www.tuaw.com/

I'm not complaining that Engadget is taking initiative- I'm complaining that this doesn't seem like a good fix. A "Roundup" is a better fix- basically, put ALL the minuscule and not-so-useful iPhone articles into one main post daily (hey, maybe even bi-daily!) and if theres breaking news.

Basically- the "all or none" deal seems a bit drastic. How about just putting a little more thought into what is actually news before putting it out there?

Continuation: Forgot to mention- I don't feel Engadget goes too overboard on iPhone/Apple news. Gizmodo on the other hand... basically, Foxnews is to the Republican Party as Gizmodo is to Apple